These necessities which have dictated the conduct of the Federal Government are overlooked, especially by our foreign critics.

In using for purposes of drama a personality of so wide and recent a fame as that of Abraham Lincoln, I feel that one or two observations are due to my readers and critics.

That these sinners would be benefited by what Mr. Kingsley's critics call "muscular Christianity" cannot be denied.

I hope it will not seem presumptuous to ask my critics to treat this new edition of Vain Fortune as a new book: for it is a new book.

But my opinion regarding my own work is of no value; I do not write this Prefatory Note to express it, but to ask my critics and my readers to forget the original Vain Fortune, and to read this new book as if it were issued under another title.

Some of the critics argued that it contained scenes as fine as any in Divorce, but it was admitted on all sides that the interest withered in the later acts.

The critics will have expressed their opinion; the work will be judged.

Readers who desire it will find it in the work of his two best critics, Mark Pattison and Sir Walter Raleigh.

What the Greeks began the critics and authors of the time of Augustus had settled in its completed form, and the scholars of the Renaissance had only interpreted their findings for modern use.

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic poem; that is to say it applies the form and treatment which the "classic" critics of the seventeenth century had laid down as belonging to the "heroic" or "epic" style to a trifling circumstancethe loss by a young lady of fashion of a lock of hair.

And it is the one instance in which this "recipe" for a heroic poem which the French critics handed on to Dryden, and Dryden left to his descendants, has been used well-enough to keep the work done with it in memory.

It is the fashion nowadays among some critics to speak of his biographer Boswell as if he were a novelist or a playwright and to classify the Johnson we know with Hamlet and Don Quixote as the product of creative or imaginative art, working on a "lost original."

The main stream flowing through the publishers and booksellers, conned by critics and coteries, recognized as the national literature, is commonly only the largest of several channels of thought.

The romantic revival is the Golden Age of English criticism; all the poets were critics of one sort or anothereither formally in essays and prefaces, or in passing and desultory flashes of illumination in their correspondence.

New modes of poetry asked of critics new sympathies and a new way of approach.

Most of his critics still consider it only Wordsworth's fun when he wrote: "One impulse from the vernal wood Can teach us more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Without insularity, we may claim to be better judges of authors in our own tongue than foreign critics, however distinguished and comprehending.

The best critics of contemporary books (and these are by no means identical with the best critics of the past and its work) are those who settle intuitively upon the writing that is going to appeal more largely to a future generation, when the attraction of novelty and topicality has subsided.

Such was the opinion of Johnson; but there are other critics who object to the versification of Pope, that it is "monotonous and cloying.

1.In the Introduction to this work, have been taken many views of the study, or general science, of grammar; many notices of its history, with sundry criticisms upon its writers or critics; and thus language has often been presented to the reader's consideration, either as a whole, or with broader scope than belongs to the teaching of its particular forms.

I shall retain both the old "definition of a consonant," and the usual names of the letters, notwithstanding the contemptuous pity it may excite in the minds of such critics.

Yet is it commended as a model, either entire or in part, by Murray, Ingersoll, Fisk, R. C. Smith, Cooper, Lennie, Hiley, Bullions, C. Adams, A. H. Weld, and I know not how many other school critics.

Some critics, however, object to the of, because the dismissing is not the servant's act; but this, as I shall hereafter show, is no valid objection: they stickle for a false rule.

"Nor glad vile poets with true critics gore.

This would be possible in outdoor make-up, but it would have to be done with the greatest care and delicacy; in fact, with what the art-critics call 'reticence.'