English Language · English Literature

Read the following passage carefully: 'Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature upon few, and the labour of learning those sciences which may, by mere labour, be obtained is too great to be willingly endured; but every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic... ... criticism is a goddess easy of access and forward of advance, who will meet the slow and encourage the timorous...' Which of the following is personified in the passage?