Which preposition to use with critics

of Occurrences 296%

But he has lately learned, from the critics of the period, that he ought to look for it, and that it is the proper thing nowadays to pitch into every journal which does not, in every part, please every body, whether they be smart or dull; those quick of appreciation, or those slow gentlemen who always come in with their congratulations upon the birth of a joke at the time its funeral is taking place.

in Occurrences 78%

I must conclude those Women (if there be any such) greater Critics in that sort of Conversation than my self, who find any of that sort in mine, or any thing that can justly be reproach't.

as Occurrences 42%

Still this "learned priest," though antecedently as competent a critic as Manetho, is so portentously mythical in his accounts, that "no historical value can be attached to them," which must be regretted, since he pushes history back a quarter of a million years prior to the Deluge, and the Deluge itself to about half a million years ago.

on Occurrences 21%

A critic on this side has said that my Prefaces to reprints of my earlier works are of the nature of parting kicks, and I have no desire just now to kick this poor innocent.

to Occurrences 16%

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment too?

for Occurrences 15%

He also was dramatic critic for The Times for a while.

than Occurrences 13%

" 4 STAKING OUT A CLAIM Psmith, in the matter of decorating a study and preparing tea in it, was rather a critic than an executant.

like Occurrences 11%

Perhaps they merited some censure, but surely they did not merit the censures heaped on them by hostile critics like Thiers, Henri Valois, and the Franciscan, Cavalli.

with Occurrences 10%

Exactly what Aristotle meant by imitation has furnished subsequent critics with an excuse for writing many volumes.

from Occurrences 9%

I remember a friendly critic from Canada who, some five or six years ago, expressed to me, with much disquiet, his opinion that there was something very far wrong with the old country; that we had gone soft.

at Occurrences 7%

A constant critic at the great man's board, To fetch and carry nonsense for my Lord.

by Occurrences 6%

On this account it is not wholesome reading; though one flies in the face of Swinburne and of other critics by venturing to suggest such a thing.

against Occurrences 5%

Among the poems which may be read as curiosities of versification, and which arouse the wrath of the critics against the whole metaphysical school, are those like "Easter Wings" and "The Altar," which suggest in the printed form of the poem the thing of which the poet sings.

among Occurrences 4%

That way of Tragi-comedy was the common mistake of that age, and is indeed become so agreeable to the English taste, that though the severer critics among us cannot bear it, yet the generality of our audiences seem better pleased with it than an exact Tragedy.

without Occurrences 3%

Dinez-vous chez-vous? Votre dévoué, DE H. The following announcement was published by Mr. Disraeli in reply to certain criticisms of his work: "I cannot allow myself to omit certain observations of my able critic without remarking that those omissions are occasioned by no insensibility to their acuteness.

into Occurrences 3%

Literaturethe spoken and the written wordwas divided by the classical critics into philosophy, history, oratory, and poetry.

after Occurrences 2%

Liszt was never especially philosophical under fault-finding, and to have a fireside critic after him, nagging him day and night, must have soured all the milk of human kindness in his heart.

of Occurrences 1%

He always thought that the evidence for the doctrine of evolution had been pressed for more than it was worth, and he had many criticisms to make upon the Higher Critics of the Bible.

out Occurrences 1%

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

over Occurrences 1%

The rest of Europe were critics over a Treaty which was a real treaty that existed between Russia and Turkey.

through Occurrences 1%

"Away with her!" cried the critics through the columns of next morning's paper.

throughout Occurrences 1%

Upon the appearance of Mr. Colcord's The Drifting Diamond, critics throughout the country had a great deal to say on the pictures of the sea which it contained.

within Occurrences 1%

In regard to Mohammed himself, a great change has taken place in the opinions of critics within fifty years.

at Occurrences 1%

CRITICS at fault.

about Occurrences 1%

Had Brummell never lived, and a novelist or play-writer described the toilet which Captain Jesse affirms to have been his daily achievement, he would have had the critics about him with the now common phrase'This book is a tissue, not only of improbabilities, but of actual impossibilities.'

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