put it this way, keed...
I read a lot of English works, too, modern and otherwise.
IMHO: This screed would not seem out of place, syntactically, in the company of articles from the Economist or among passages from much of Kipling's collected body of work.
and, why is it "syntactic" rather than "syntaxial"???
Besides my obsession with reading English authors, I also watch their movies and T.V. shows, and I've been there many times over and have several English friends. He ain't a Brit!