By the time he has acquired some skill in criticism he has generally ceased to be a critic, through no fault of his own, but through sheer weariness of spirit.
He had read an article in which the writer said that the great fault of modern fiction was that authors were more concerned to produce good chapters than to produce good books.
Pray advertise both in every newspaper; and let it not be yourfault or mine, if our countrymen will not take warning.
It is a great fault among you, that when a person writes with no other intention than to do you good, you will not be at the pains to read his advices.
It was for love of you that I returned too soon--the fault was mine.
The faultwas not yours; it was our ambition and our faithlessness.
But it wasn't our fault this old sailboat upset," Penny returned reasonably.
I guess it was my faultwe upset, but you never should have turned the tiller over to me.
Well, now it's your turn to do me a little favor, 'specially since it wasn't my fault I lost the bridge job.
It really wasn't hisfault that he was away from his post at the time of the explosion.
But it wasn't your fault the bridge was dynamited.
Fault and misfortune are pretty much alike, to my thinking.
I think it will be our fault whenever he does so," said she, quietly.
Then I crave your honor's pardon, and you 'll never have to find the same fault with me again.
The fault I find with him," said Tom, "is his credulity.
I had not even paid the woman, that I might have some right to find fault with her; withdrawing after two days, was I not like a parasite of love, afraid of having to pay the bill of the banquet?
It is not my fault for not advising her to, for I couldn't bear to see the poor girl stripping herself of everything.
The whole of the drawing is well executed, and free from fault or affectation, except perhaps in the somewhat confused curlings of the near sea.
It has not his usual fault of over-crowding or over-glitter; the objects in it are few and noble, and the space infinite.
Yet I must say that I have great hope, my comrades, for we have come to this dark place by no fault of ours--unless it be a fault to try to succour a woman in distress.
It was my fault she was so long, for I stopped her to speak to her, and then a dog overturned her pail.
It might be very true that Harry's fault was to be excused in part because of Lady Ongar's greater and primary fault, but why should Florence be the scapegoat?
It is not his fault if he still likes her the best.
As to the rector, if his suit to Fanny were a fault against Mr. Clavering as Fanny's father, that fault had been already committed.
She had known what Lord Ongar was before she had married him, and the fault was her own.
Mr. Stuart, no doubt, would have been willing to drown himself to save his friends, because the fault was in some degree his.
The very fact that he was forgiven would seem to imply some fault that required pardon.
But the fault was hers, and the caution was needed.
My chief fault is that I do not always appear to act as I ought.
Beethoven found the same fault with Mozart's playing that Mozart here condemns.
No possible fault could be found with the execution.
She tried to play her hard part well; but wherever she looked, some fresh anxiety appeared, as if every fault and folly of those months had blossomed suddenly within the hour.
The most experienced commander would have found no fault with our men, for in perfect silence and under complete control they kept behind the breastworks, ready to spring up and open a furious fire on the advancing pikemen.
But the machine does not increase the culprit's fault, and for such a fault the legal penalty may be five years in jail.
This was the course of life to which Fate, and not her own fault altogether, had for awhile handed over Ethel Newcome.
It was not my fault that you did not see me sooner.
We did not tell our hostess that poor Ethel and her grandmother had been accused of doing the very same thing for which she found fault with the Misses Burr.
It's not the faultof the Marchioness of Farintosh that her family is not equal to mine.
And yet it is not hisfault or ours that he is a stranger to us.
Let those pity her who can feel their own weakness and misgoing; let those punish her who are without fault themselves.
The whole country looked on and heard the wretched story, not only of Barnes's fault and Highgate's fault, but of the private peccadilloes of their suborned footmen and conspiring housemaids.
He was an uncouth and peevish young man; for ever finding fault with the younger pupils, whose butt he was.
She found no fault; who was she, to find fault with any one?
It's the fault of my temper, perhaps, that she can't.
The gravest political fault that must be laid to Ivan's account is that his cruelties were occasionally stupid.
I guess it is our own fault and not the time table's.
Sallie was a pretty girl, despite the fault her father had pointed out--that she was long-limbed.
If there is a fault of any kind in the arrangements, it is that they do not keep cats enough.
Hybridism causes a fault in the chain of memory, and it is to this cause that the usual sterility of hybrids must be referred.
The Virgin herself does not seem to care much about it, but if she has a fault it is that she is generally a little apathetic.
If this proves to be true and remains unpalatable, the fault lies in the palate and not in the truth.
It is our fault if our children are disturbed by the conflict between religion and science which disturbed us.
No one dreams of finding faultwith Chaucer because his stories related in the company of men and women often would not bear such telling to-day.
In 1721, Grand Master Montagu found fault with the Old Charges as being inadequate, and ordered Dr.
English writers like Speth go too far when they deny to the Steinmetzen any esoteric lore, and German scholars like Krause and Findel are equally at fault in insisting that they were Free-masons.
My dear love," she said, "how could I suppose it was your fault or Mab's?
It shall not be my fault if Mr. St. John does not have his rights.
It was not the fault of the girls, Mr. St. John; on the contrary, they were against it.
It was nobody's fault but his own, foolish as he was, neglecting all chances of "bettering himself.
He made wry faces at Mrs. Jumbo and her strokings, and even found faultwith the soup when she asked him sweetly if it were not excellent.
But if my nerves were shaken, my muscles and wind were in good order, and not even the most morbid self-consciousness could find fault with the time spent on the journey.
But the morality of every action lies in the end; and if the reader by ill-use renders himself guilty of the fact in reading, which I designed to expose by writing, the fault is his, not mine.
Nor could it fairly be said to be the visitor's fault either, for his questions were as numerous as they were intelligent.
Nor can the amount spent on the place be found fault with; it is a mere trifle in the domestic house-keeping bill of the nation, and a larger sum is annually wasted in useless firing off of cannon.
The boy, of course, was a fool, through no fault of his, but through that of his bigoted teachers.
This is not the fault of the colored man, nor Christianity; but an ordination of Providence, and no more to be changed than the laws of Nature!
