Word: didacticism
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Jealousy at the success of his Homer drew out much adverse comment from minor writers, and to crush them. Pope wrote his Dunciad. His epistles, moral essays and satires occupied his last fourteen years. His Essay on Man, although never regarded as of any philosophical value, shows well in its...
The Normans had no unity of feeling with the Anglo-Saxons whom they conquered. They had the lightness of touch and sensitiveness of feeling that characterize the Celts, but, while the Celts gave voice only to their own feelings, the Normans had a mighty interest in the world about them...
The poems of the Celts are chiefly cynical. They have never made a success in war or politics, and naturally their poems would not be didactic or ethical. They have no humor about their poems, but in all these there is a one of sadness always prevalent and generally distinct...
It was in 1654, that he was invited to become the president of Harvard University, but offers of the Swedish minister proved more attractive. If he had accepted the position here, it is probable that America and not Europe would lead in thoroughness of education. The principles which Comenius represented...
16. Is Mr. Ruskin's assertion correct, that "All lovely art is rooted in virtue, so it bears fruit of virtue, and is didactic in its own nature?"