It is the pretty unanimous conclusion of book-writers that prefaces are most unnecessary and useless prependages, since nobody reads them.
And there are few prefaces which do not in some way betray this nervousness.
With prefaces and notes, including those attributed to Sir Walter Scott.
Johnson and Goldsmith were treated briefly, for the prefaces were to be proportioned to the amount of work by each author included in the text.
With a biographical memoir of the author, literary prefaces to the various pieces, illustrative notes, etc.
This book and the prefaces to his own novels are likely to be thought of first when Scott is spoken of as a critic.
The large volume of "Criticisms and Appreciations of Dickens" is composed of hisprefaces to the separate books of Dickens.
The reason why Shaw's prefaces read so well and his plays go better on the stage than would be anticipated is because they are composed by ear.
His literary criticism, mostly written as prefaces to standard reprints, makes delightful reading, although sometimes he uses his author merely as a point of departure.
We can sympathise with some of the earlier printers of the German Vulgate when they inserted in their prefaces that readers must be careful to understand the contents of the volume in the way declared by the Church.
Some publishers of the translations inserted prefaces saying that the contents of the volumes should be understood in the way taught by the Church, as was done in the Book of the Gospels, published at Basel in 1514.
He himself has left us a few very sententiously worded prefaces which do not argue great critical taste.
But, perhaps, nobody reads prefaces except other authors; and critics, who hope that they will find enough in the preface to enable them to do without reading any of the book.
But although he translated books both from French and Dutch, it is perhaps to his delightfulprefaces more than to anything else that he owes his title of author.
But when you come to read Caxton's books, you may perhaps like his prefaces as much as anything else about them.
Two remarks which the writer has made in the prefacesto the former Chronicles he will venture to repeat, as essential to the subject in each case.
The origin of these tales has been mentioned in the prefaces to the earlier volumes, but may be briefly repeated for those who have not seen the former "Chronicles.
The additional proof with which in the second edition Kant prefaces the entire argument calls for no special comment.
Their occasional use in prefaces and dedicatory letters is much more appropriate.
Copland is rather an interesting person, who made translations and wrote prefaces and addresses to the reader in verse, besides printing books.
The "lucubrations" are of course the prefaces written for the collected edition.
No more commercially thankless job of the literary order was (Prefaces and all--they of a thanklessness!
In publishing their correspondence, many years after its close, Bettine prefaces it with the remark: "This book is for the good, and not for the bad.
The varying episcopal benedictions as used in the Anglo-Saxon church were retained, but the numerous proper prefaces were discarded, the number being reduced to ten.
There are now ten proper or special prefaces and one common preface.
Every Sunday and festival and almost every votive mass has its proper preface, although the number of such prefaces in the Gregorian sacramentary of the same period had been reduced to eight.
That the books were grouped and possibly published in sets is rendered probable both by the prefaces which introduce new divisions of the work (vi.
In these prefaces he dwelt particularly on the striking differences, as regards Church usages and regulations, between their congregations and his own.
A similar feeling of the distinct nationality of Italian literature is to be found in many of the prefaces of the Italian comedies of this period.
The prefacesof all these epics indicate clearly enough their indebtedness to the Italians.
The dramatic criticism was for the most part carried on by dramatists, sometimes even in the prefaces of their plays.
But in Fielding's attitude towards his sister's work, and in the personal opinions he expressed in the prefaces to her novels, we find quite a different tone.
Her portrait of herself was engraved by Becket and prefaces the volume of her poems issued the year after her death.
A tendency of the same kind every mind must feel at the perusal of Dryden's prefaces and Rymer's discourses.
Criticism, either didactick or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
Of all books, too, it seems to me that novels require prefaces least--at any rate, on their first appearance.
If we may judge Randall from his extant Prefaces he was a beautiful spirit and was, in fact, what he calls himself, "a lover of the Truth in the Truth.
Luther did not intend to make the "Word of God" synonymous with the Scriptures, and in his great Prefaces to St. Paul's Epistles he does not identify the two.
There are three translations of religious classics which bear his name on the title-page, and which are introduced to the reader in Prefaces written by him, but it is far from certain that he actually made the {256} translations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prefaces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
