Reproof

• “Reproof is indeed implied in the term employed, and doubtless the word begins with it.”

  Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

• “At the beginning of the next it was followed by a second part, called Reproof, in which he took an occasion of venting his resentment against Rich, the manager of Covent Garden, with whom he had quarrelled concerning an opera, written by him for that theatre, on the story of Alcestis.”

  Lives of the English Poets

• “In 1747 he produced "Reproof," the second part of "Advice," -- a poem which breathes the same manly indignation at the abuses, evils, and public charlatans of the day.”

  Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

• “Reproof," says Dr. Johnson, "should not exhaust its power upon petty failings;" and "the care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

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  OpEdNews - Quicklink: In Apparent Truce, U.S. Sees Russian Fear of Global Reproof

• “Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “‘Reproof!’ replied Madame Montoni: ‘I meant to praise your virtue.’”

  The Mysteries of Udolpho

• “In his twin satires, “Advice” and “Reproof,” you see rather the will to wound than the power to strike.”

  Poems

• “Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the”

  As You Like It

• “Reproof is criticism administered gently; rebuke is sterner stuff, and censure is official condemnation.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Uncertain Terms

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