Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...author are viewed. The writer informs us in the modest preface that the poems contained in the volume were written, with the exception of two of the shorter ones, before coming to college, and this statement must dull, it would seem, the pen of the most ill-natured critic...
Number 3 of the first volume of Yale's new paper, the Critic, impressed us rather favorably at first glance. After reading the editorial column we thought that the Critic was designed to be a sort of a Nation among college papers - a field entirely unoccupied in college journalism. And this in our opinion is what it should be. The Critic, - with the exception of the first column, which is written in an admirable style, - contains but three or four subjects, all of which have been handled from time immemorial by other college papers. If the Critic wishes...
...Lippincott & Co. announce a novel of New England life, "Forever and a Day," by Edward Fuller, who is a student at Harvard College, a member of the graduating class of 1882. - [N. Y. Critic.] We congratulate Mr. Fuller on his successful literary venture, a success presaged by his meritorious work in college journalism...
...called 'young Romeo,' and no more." But surely that would be enough, even if there were no other indications in the text of Romeo's youthfulness, and there are several. The whole tragedy, indeed, may be described, and even explained, as a story of youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like...
Prof. Kuenen of Leyden, the celebrated Biblical critic, is to deliver the "Hibbert Lectures" in London this year. They will be repeated at Oxford...