text: ] That there is some truth in these severe remarks the paltry personal squibs in the _Leipzig Almanach_ for 1832 which called them forth with regard to Augustus Schlegel at least sufficiently show: but there is a general truth involved in them also which the worthy fraternity of us who in this paper age wield the critical pen would do well to take seriously to heart; and it is this that great poets and philosophers have a natural aversion as much to be praised and patronized as to be rated and railed at by great critics; and very justly so