In their pages is found the most abominable raving that has ever passed for literary criticism.

It received searching and severe criticism from Dom Baumer, the author of Geschichte des Breviers.

Thus "We observed how he demeaned himself" implies no adverse criticism of either the man or his deportment.

Nôldeke was much sharper and more cautious in his historical criticism than Muir or Sprenger.

Once upon a time SPIFFKINS had the opportunity of trying his hand at dramatic criticism, and adopted a startlingly new system, which consisted simply in telling the truth.

Let us follow him in some of his destructive criticism, or rather denunciations, in order to observe his mode of procedure.

The renaissance clerics, the Gallicans, the Jansenists, and the Protestants poured forth volumes of hostile and unmerited criticism on the matter and form of Rome's sacred songs.

Theobald, though of no original talent, was certainly, in his generation, the most successful illustrator of Shakspeare, and the first, though Rowe and Pope had preceded him in the effort, who had brought a sound verbal criticism to bear on the text.

" "Then come with me," and the sentinel deserted his post to lead us into camp, a proceeding which called forth harsh criticisms from Sergeant Corney, despite the fact that he was being benefited thereby.

It has not yet learned to think for itself in politics, or formed the habit of free discussion and practical criticism of public affairs.

The audience was large, always; such as a provincial town affords: not the purest bench of musical criticism before which to bring poor Tom.

In fact, very little Greek or Roman literary criticism is concerned with poetical theory as compared with the keen interest of many critics in oratory.

A few words from a contemporary criticism may serve to indicate the effect it produced on a first-night audience We are in the thick of the action at once, or at least in the thick of the interest, so that the exposition, instead of being, so to speak, a mere platform from which the train is presently to start, becomes an inseparable part of the movement.

He is no stranger to biblical criticism or philosophy, nor unacquainted with ancient and modern geography, and is qualified to support a conversation with learned men, who frequently visit and correspond with him.

I have seldom had to discuss the opinions of previous writers on the same points, for the simple reason that of detailed criticism of Adonais, apart from merely textual memoranda, there is next to none.

I have not aimed to be exhaustive, or to give minute criticism on comparatively unimportant points; but the passions and interests which have agitated nations, the ideas which great men have declared, and the institutions which have grown out of them, have not, I trust, been uncandidly described, nor deductions from them illogically made.

He had the to fight an aggressive battle, but not the to stand for long days upon the defensive; less still did he have the to disregard unjust criticism.

Let us renounce, therefore, all our old views, in order later to accept better ones in their stead; or, perchance, to take the former up again after they shall have stood the test of rational criticism.

He didn't wish to see any woman in such a hard life, with its bitter criticism and abuse.

As Matthew Arnold says, Keats "had flint and iron in him"; and in his next volume he accomplished his own purpose and silenced unfriendly criticism.

As a reaction it has been of service; but it has led to much false criticism, and not a little false art, by an obtrusiveness of Detail and a preference for the Familiar, under the misleading notion of adherence to Nature.

and the result of this sincerity would be some really valuable criticism.

Professor J.B. Fletcher helped me by his friendly and penetrating criticism of the manuscript.

A minister may be fearless of the investigations of scientific criticism.

On the formation of their acquaintance they differed on some trifling point of poetical criticism, and for near a month the colonel had maintained his opinion with a show of firmness; but opportunities not wanting for the discussion, he had felt constrained to yield to her better judgment, her purer taste.