censurer

They were interested in their story and were eager to give it all the advantages that erudition could discover; their intentions were doubtless perfectly reflected in the praise which William Webbe gave them for a play that "all men generally desired, as a work, either in stateliness of show, depth of conceit, or true ornaments of poetical art, inferior to none of the best in that kind: no, were the Roman Seneca the censurer."

Such, fair censurer! such is the natural state of that unnatural character, an old bachelor!

No writer can be great without a manner of his own; and that Dickens had such a manner his most supercilious censurer will readily allow.

When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt."

But it is impossible with Decency to follow this luscious Censurer, really I had scarce Patience to read, and therefore you will not expect me to rake longer in his Dirt.