Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...WELLESLEY COLLEGE girl heard her father criticised severely across a dinner-table. The critic paused a minute to say, "I hope he is no relative of yours, Miss?" Quick as thought she replied, with the utmost nonchalance, "Only a connection of my mother's by marriage." - Varsity...
...books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves and in use in our Shakspere classes, - namely, the series edited with so much skill and accuracy by Mr. William J. Rolfe, of Cambridge, and also the excellent Clarenden Press manuals of Mr. W. Aldis Wright. And in the critical line we had always supposed that Dowden, Ulrici, and Werder over-topped the Magnate of Boston University. But it seems we are wrong - in Mr. Hudson's eyes. Now it is not only aggravating to have a book which we by no means approve heralded over two continents...
...mistakes; granted that Mr. Furnivall's attack upon Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps was unjust as the Advocate's own attack upon the Society; granted that Mr. Aldis Wright, whose ability we are not disposed to question, considers Mr. Hudson (whom we certainly did not confound with Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps) a critic whose opinion is worth hearing (a marvellous circumstance, surely, since the latter confines himself almost entirely to the "sign-post criticism" which the former deprecates); granted that Professor Child has on one or two occasions found it necessary to disagree with some of his fellow Shaksperians, - what have all these...
...valuable papers are read, and important questions discussed, and reports of the proceedings are forwarded to the members. Thus, by joining the Society, one obtains the larger part of all that is best and freshest in the line of Shakspere study. It is very well to praise the slashing criticism which is so popular and so unsound; to magnify the merits of a certain Boston University critic, whose ignorance is only equalled by his audacity; to depreciate men who, like Dr. Furness, can really add something of value to Shaksperian literature; but we believe that those admirers and those critics...