Critic (The), by R. B. Sheridan, suggested by The Rehearsal (1779).
The Rehearsal is by the Duke of Buckingham (1671).
Critics (The Prince of), Aristarchos of Byzantium, who compiled, in the second century B.C., the rhapsodies of Homer.
Croaker, guardian to Miss Richland. Never so happy as when he imagines himself a martyr. He loves a funeral better than a festival, and delights to think that the world is going to rack and ruin. His favorite phrase is "May be not."
A poor, fretful soul, that has a new distress
for every hour of the four and twenty.—Act i. 1.
Mrs. Croaker, the very reverse of her grumbling, atrabilious husband. She is mirthful, light-hearted, and cheerful as a lark.
The very reverse of each other. She all laugh
and no joke, he always complaining and never