Excerpt from The Connoisseur, Vol. 1 The character of this paper is for the most part satirical and humorous, with a sparing intermixture of serious elegance; and, though by no means destitute of originality in. matter or manner, it has been pronounced, in point both of literature and morals, inferior to its immediate predecessors and contemporaries. It was popularly received during its publication, and merited the success it found; but the demand for it abated sensibly as that arbiter of all pretensions, Time, applied to it the test of his confirmation. But this neglect which it experienced is only comparative: it indulged too much in unmitigated ridicule, to the exclusion of graver disquisitions which were sometimes expected from it; and its overstrained attempts at caricature were followed by a transitory admiration which evaporated as the excitement subsided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.