And must not an animal be a lover of learning who determines what he likes and dislikes by the test of knowledge and ignorance?
He seeks society, but dislikes constraint and monotony; he is an imitator, but fond of his own ideas, and passionately in love with his works.
Or, if the critic be a Whig, and consequently dislikes such kind of similes, as being too favourable to Jacobitism, let him be contented with the following story: