The French critics are not loath to display their acumen in reviewing the works of their compatriots, for they not only analyze the demerits with pungent causticity, but apply to them the severest of all tests, that of ridicule; in the use of which dangerous weapon they excel.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
With his usual causticity Herder characterised the manner of the two chief contributors.
"The Youth of Goethe"
Peter Hume Brown
Lenglet du Fresnoy is not a writer merely laborious; without genius, he still has a hardy originality in his manner of writing and of thinking; and his vast and restless curiosity fermenting his immense book-knowledge, with a freedom verging on cynical causticity, led to the pursuit of uncommon topics.
"Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
Isaac Disraeli