And while the book contained something that promised to suit every kind of reader everyone found something to shock him.

Critics were scandalized at the depreciation of Claude; the religious were outraged at the comparison of Turner, in a passage omitted from later editions, to the Angel of the Sun in the Apocalypse.
But the descriptive passages were such as had never appeared before in prose; and the obvious usefulness of the analyses of natural form and effect made many an artist read on, while he shook his head.

Some readily owned their obligation to the new teacher.

Holland, for one, wrote to Harrison that he meant to paint the better for the snubbing he had got.

Of such as reviewed the book adversely in _Blackwood_ and the _Athenaeum_, not one undertook to refute it seriously.