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The New York Herald wrote that Johnson’s remarks “smell of chagrin, distrust, ill nature, and bad blood.”

And it is he, not they, who is justly hailed as the founder of that benign school of comic art which gives us humor without coarseness, and satire without ill nature.

But the woman seemed to be giving vent to her own ill nature in an evidently customary and certainly vivid way.

Low comedy especially requires, on the writer's part, much of conversation with the vulgar, and much of ill nature in the observation of their follies.

About the truth of this it is not necessary to trouble; in such things, and indeed in many others that ill nature floats, there is generally sufficient to give a colouring.