Literary Beatdowns: or, Excerpts from Smollett's 'Critical Review'

"A very trivial, insipid, injudicious and defective performance, without plan, method, learning, accuracy, or elegance; an unmeaning composition of shreds, rags, and remnants…a patched, a pie-bald, linsey-woolsey nothing." Alas, such beatdowns are hard to find these days.
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