• Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet 1819-1892
  

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1. originally
2. procreates
3. instrument
4. malignant
5. beauties
6. passions

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture. by : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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