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Section III. — A Digression Concerning Critics.
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Though I have been hitherto as cautious as I could, upon all occasions, most nicely to follow the rules and methods of writing laid down by the example of our illustrious moderns, yet has the unhappy shortness of my memory led me into an error, from which I must immediately extricate1 myself, before I can decently pursue my principal subject. I confess with shame it was an unpardonable omission2 to proceed so far as I have already done before I had performed the due discourses4, expostulatory, supplicatory5, or deprecatory, with my good lords the critics. Towards some atonement for this grievous neglect, I do here make humbly7 bold to present them with a short account of themselves and their art, by looking into the original and pedigree of the word, as it is generally understood among us, and very briefly8 considering the ancient and present state thereof.
By the word critic, at this day so frequent in all conversations, there have sometimes been distinguished9 three very different species of mortal men, according as I have read in ancient books and pamphlets. For first, by this term were understood such persons as invented or drew up rules for themselves and the world, by observing which a careful reader might be able to pronounce upon the productions of the learned, form his taste to a true relish10 of the sublime11 and the admirable, and divide every beauty of matter or of style from the corruption12 that apes it. In their common perusal
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extricate
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| n.论文,演说;谈话;话语;vi.讲述,著述 | |
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| 论文( discourse的名词复数 ); 演说; 讲道; 话语 | |
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corruption
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perusal
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fulsome
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diligently
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filth
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complexion
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appellation
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censure
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reproof
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utterly
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descending
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celestial
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commonwealth
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gratitude
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virtue
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obloquy
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votaries
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| n.驴;傻瓜,蠢笨的人 | |
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hemp
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pretensions
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| 自称( pretension的名词复数 ); 自命不凡; 要求; 权力 | |
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scent
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peruse
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monstrous
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lurking
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fowl
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perverse
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| n.倾斜;点头;弯腰;斜坡;倾度;倾向;爱好 | |
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sect
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tenor
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conversant
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blemishes
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oversights
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possessed
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replete
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distil
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acquitted
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indefatigably
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transcending
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| 超出或超越(经验、信念、描写能力等)的范围( transcend的现在分词 ); 优于或胜过… | |
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admiration
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conversing
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obviate
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soften
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satire
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prologues
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mythology
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hieroglyph
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remarkable
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refinement
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| 密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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| v.吼叫,怒骂,纠缠,混乱;n.混乱,缠结,咆哮 | |
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