Which preposition to use with criticisms

of Occurrences 682%

Marriages, made at the Conservatoire or the Opera Comique; Favourable criticism of arranged.

on Occurrences 184%

The deputies would call out: "Allez! allez!" interspersed with a few lively criticisms on what he was saying to them; he was perfectly unmoved, merely replied: "I will go on with pleasure as soon as you will be quiet enough for me to be heard."

in Occurrences 107%

And this is criticism in China.

by Occurrences 44%

For example, he enlisted the aid of Cristoforo Landino, who in his Disputationes Camaldunenses had really inaugurated the science of textual criticism by urging that a careful comparison of the various codices should constitute the preliminary step in any reproduction of the classics.

to Occurrences 29%

No writer today, who would treat of the criticism of the renaissance, can escape his deep indebtedness to Dr. Joel Elias Spingarn, whose Literary Criticism in the Renaissance has so carefully traced the debt of English criticism to the Italians.

from Occurrences 20%

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

as Occurrences 18%

Gregory Smith calls attention to the influence of Sidney and Daniel in establishing "the claim of English criticism as an instrument of power outside the craft of rhetoricians and scholars."

with Occurrences 17%

This criticism with others in like strain, was addressed to Mr. Leigh Hunt, to whom, in 1812, when enduring for radicalism's sake a very comfortable incarceration, Byron had, in company with Moore, paid a courteous visit.

for Occurrences 17%

In fact, as the Colonel did not attempt in any way to check him in his youthful career of extravagance and experiences which were the result of an excessive high spirit, our young gentleman at this time brought down upon himself much adverse criticism for his behaviour, especially from his uncles.

than Occurrences 15%

None of the cases of progressive modification which are cited from among the Invertebrata appear to me to have a foundation less open to criticism than these; and if this be so, no careful reasoner would, I think, be inclined to lay very great stress upon them.

against Occurrences 11%

It is with reserve we offer this criticism against the authority of Dr. Sewel, and the Tatler; but we have resolved to be impartial, and the reader who is convinced of the propriety and beauty of the Splendid Shilling, has, no doubt, as good a right to reject our criticism, as we had to make it.

at Occurrences 11%

The Duke of Wellington was not a clever man; he was a man of simple and honourable mind, with an infinite capacity for patience, persistence, and endurance, so that neither unexpected reverses abroad nor a flood of idle criticism at home could shake him or change him.

about Occurrences 6%

" Robinson's is entire; I wish you would write more criticism about Spencer, etc.

on Occurrences 5%

%History of Spanish Literature.% With Criticisms on the particular Works and Biographical Notices of prominent Writers.

out Occurrences 3%

"My Gawd," she whispered reverently; "ain't it just a dream!" To be perfectly honest, it seemed to me more in the nature of a nightmare, but wild horses wouldn't have dragged any such hostile criticism out of me.

without Occurrences 3%

That poor Gifford was deformed in figure, feeble in health, unhappily for him there can be no denying, but that he had any pleasure in tormenting, as asserted by some, that he indulged in needless criticism without any regard to the feelings of those who were under his lash, I am quite satisfied cannot justly be maintained.

after Occurrences 3%

There was no criticism after the style of Sainte-Beuve.

into Occurrences 2%

He relaxes, as Johnson said of him, the brow of criticism into a smile.

towards Occurrences 2%

There is no reason to suppose that Schopenhauer was ever a conciliatory son, or a companionable person to live with; in fact, there is plenty to show that he possessed trying and irritating qualities, and that he assumed an attitude of criticism towards his mother that could not in any circumstances be agreeable.

above Occurrences 2%

None of those who are not professedly teachers of religion and experts, can be morally bound to a criticism above their competence, or to more than an obedience to those ordinary causes of assent to whose influence they are subjected by their circumstances.

before Occurrences 1%

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

throughout Occurrences 1%

In the meantime Schiller had addressed himself to his crowning enterprise, the establishing of a literary journal which should be the final dictator of taste and literary criticism throughout the German-speaking world.

among Occurrences 1%

As for the once formidable question concerning the comparative merits of this poet and Ariosto, which anticipated the modern quarrels of the classical and romantic schools, some idea of the treatment which Tasso experienced may be conceived by supposing all that used to be sarcastic and bitter in the periodical party-criticism among ourselves some thirty years back, collected into one huge vial of wrath, and poured upon the new poet's head.

toward Occurrences 1%

Like the public feeling, the condition and powers of criticism toward an author's fame, are essentially changed by his death.

like Occurrences 1%

A man must not go down before criticism like that.

Which preposition to use with  criticisms