| 单词 | moralise |
| 例句 | He was quite as undaunted and as lively as ever; and, after seeing him, Emma thus moralised to herself:— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Visitors seem always to have spent more time reading the moralising biographical inscriptions than looking at the works, and inscriptions expanded in length exponentially to cater for the demand. Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy - review 2011-01-15T00:05:50Z Related: How to catch up with … UnREAL But for all her moralising about the awful, cynical things Quinn asks her to do, Rachel is just as corrupt as her boss. 'Walter White in power heels': UnREAL is evil, twisted, unmissable TV 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It's a pity because when Mr Sneer talks of a moralising writer whose idea is "to dramatise the penal laws", he seems to be anticipating our own move towards edifying verbatim theatre. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z "Muddled thinking" and numpty moralising about food are major annoyances of the foodie age. Feeding Frenzy by Paul McMahon; A Hungry Man in a Greedy World by Jay Rayner – review 2013-05-26T07:00:05Z For Gopal, though, these issues are simply handy levers for empty western moralising. Bibi Aisha, victim of the Taliban's political strategy 2010-12-05T00:06:00Z And, like a spoilt child in a moralising fairytale, I decided to sate my hunger with another quarter. Thank you to … the Amsterdam cafe staff who nursed me through a weed-related crisis 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Her interlocutors can barely grasp what she is saying, because she is an old wife herself, and old wives neither explain nor moralise. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Many critics, on the other hand, find such moralising fanatical and perverse. The lives of moral saints 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z She neither sentimentalises her characters nor moralises about them: she simply presents them as they are. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z It's basically a combination of Crimewatch reconstruction and the moralising of 1980s public information films. Jamie & Jimmy's Food Fight Club is absolutely baffling 2012-11-30T13:30:00Z In the middle ages the genre flourished: illuminated manuscripts combined what was known about various creatures – both extant and fabulous – with moralising tales designed to edify the reader. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z A Shavian twist gives one of the most coruscating and convincing speeches – against conventional moralising – to the scoundrel Dubedat, who knocks out his opponents cold. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z Indeed, in all four of the Step Up's narratives, heartland moralising morphs into political agenda; financial acumen means heartless capitalism and bread-line living requires soul. Step Up 4's secret revolutionary message 2012-08-10T12:00:20Z In any case, the most frustrating thing about the constant flow of moralising about women and drink is how one-sided it is. 'Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z In her books Illness As Metaphor and Aids And Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag argued against the oppressive moralising of disease, which was increasingly portrayed as an individual problem. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z It's one of the many things people misremember about the show, which is fondly recalled as a cosy, moralising bit of nostalgia, in which the bobby on the beat figured as a paternal, reassuring presence. Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green 2012-07-19T19:00:01Z It’s depressing anyway that the movie shaped real, tragic events into a moralising narrative designed to deter women from aspiring to freedoms that are commonplace for men. Are you a female movie character? Are you promiscuous? Things won’t end well for you … 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z Though warts-and-all, it does not linger or moralise over the blemishes; laudatory, it does not veer towards panegyric, even as it impresses with Mr Leader’s forensic readings. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The fact that moralising religious beliefs are more prevalent in more complex societies does not prove that one caused the other. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It offers no explanations of events and makes no attempt to moralise. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z He avoids moralising, "which is to morality what artiness is to art". Moral Combat: A History of World?War II by Michael Burleigh 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z That at least would be better than having the PM pick off selected individuals, moralising about them in the process. Letters: Heard the one about Jimmy Carr and the taxman? 2012-06-22T19:59:03Z Without moralising, this play nicely illustrates some of the bizarre consequences of an economy in which the spoils of wealth are in the hands of a lucky few. Haves and have-nots 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z By day, they defeated planning officers to push through building schemes or run rent rackets; by night they defied moralising prudes in the cause of libertinism. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-04T10:00:01Z I’m not thinking of a didactic, moralising literature. Elena Ferrante: A writer’s talent is like a fishing net, catching daily experiences that can educate 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z One that produces characters like the moralising teacher, who is rumoured to be having an affair herself. Wadjda illustrates how Arab cinema is just beginning to come of age 2013-07-24T13:01:47Z They shaped the entertainment industry and ran its moralising side-project of glamorous charity events about the plights of other people. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z Perhaps it seemed glib to end a play about Greek debt on a moralising note. Timon of Athens – review 2012-06-06T13:07:03Z There's no moralising, and Korine doesn't care to analyse it too much. Spring Breakers, a riotous take on modern America 2013-03-30T06:00:00Z Like most tales of its foolish kind, my story was didactic but it did not moralise. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z I'm not always persuaded by this moralising x-ray: why should a painting be ashamed of its sensual surface? Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane 2010-06-26T23:11:00Z While a large amount of energy is expended on moralising about women’s bodies, there is still a shocking lack of research around many women’s health issues. 'Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Sexism is apparently not the problem: the problem is sex, the nature of it, the amount of it that’s being had away from moralising eyes, sometimes for money. Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, “having it all” and true liberation 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z In the end he conveniently sidesteps his own moralising and lets it happen by accident, when one of the pepperpots runs over the wires, merely delaying their evolution by a thousand years. Genesis of the Daleks: Doctor Who classic episode #7 2013-05-23T11:52:01Z Mr Johnson’s own research into 186 preindustrial cultures found that moralising religious beliefs were more prevalent in larger and more complex societies; these were more likely to be policed, use money and pay taxes. In the hands of an angry God 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But Schulman cunningly constructs her controversy – fictional, though with well-judged shadows of some factual scandals – to make easy moralising hard for readers. This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - review 2012-02-10T22:55:01Z His wife, meanwhile, sits "sighing and moralising over her broad hems". Ten questions on Jane Austen 2012-05-18T21:45:05Z “You know, I spent no time moralising it. I am pretty comfortable with it,” Gyllenhaal says when we meet in a slick boutique hotel on the Brooklyn waterfront. Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘Pornography is an art form’ 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Unlike the moralising narratives of the artist’s Pre-Raphaelite peers, these were about “line, form and colour first”, Whistler insisted. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Others, however, eschew this moralising tone and are prepared to be startled. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z Actually the eighth show to be produced, this set the template for the early years with its mixture of anarchic comedy and cosy moralising. 2010-01-14T11:04:00Z "I wanted to tell this drama with complexity," Thorne says, explaining he tried to show the views from all sides of the debate - disabled people to parents and doctors - without "moralising". BBC drama asks: When do you let a sick child die? 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Critics say the government needs to avoid coming across as moralising. Germany unveils guidelines to give foreign policy 'a more female face' 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Like all of Butterworth's work, the series doesn't judge or moralise over the characters' duplicitous behaviour. James Corden: How Jez Butterworth's 'bombshell' drama lured him back to acting 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Museveni bristles at Western criticism that he's an autocrat, and defence of gay rights - the kind of moralising that China and Russia don't do. Explainer: Why African nations' support for UN action on Russia/Ukraine is so mixed 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z I tut with the moralising disapproval of a Victorian dad, since you ask. FA Cup third round, Afcon buildup, transfer news and more – live! 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z "Climate policy must not be moralising and must be fair," the coalition's policy paper said. Norway's oil and gas sector will not be dismantled, new government says 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z "We must not make the error of mixing up value-oriented foreign policy with moralising foreign policy," Bijan Djir-Sarai, the general secretary of junior coalition partner the Free Democrats, told broadcaster Welt. Germany unveils guidelines to give foreign policy 'a more female face' 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Ordinarily, the president is confined to cutting ribbons and giving moralising speeches. Explainer: Making elephants dance: a guide to Germany's electoral system 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z "I'm not really interested in moralising about anything," she explains. St Vincent: 'Without music, I'd be dead' 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z In Britain there is a long tradition of moralising about mindless materialism. Mass consumerism is decimating our planet. This Black Friday, let’s take a stand | Alan Bradshaw 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z But they were unsatisfied with the original translation and thus translated it again, with the text eventually becoming more descriptive and “moralised”, according to Montefusco. Marco Polo parchment sheds light on last year of his life in Venice – researchers 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The tone of Another Unfortunate is defiant, proud and attacks the paternalistic moralising of the groups who wish to save her. Today’s sex workers, like their Victorian sisters, don’t want ‘saving’ | Kate Lister 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In the late 1950s, a group of precocious poets scandalised Medellín, Colombia’s second city, with attacks on establishment politics and social moralising. US briefing: 2020 census, New Orleans storm and Gulf crisis 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z The article went viral – of course it did – and Hagerman was widely met with moralising scorn. How the news took over reality 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Obama getting rosé-shamed by the Mail is not an isolated incident; the media loves moralising about women and booze. Malia Obama’s rosé-shaming is the latest in drinking double standards 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Vasily Nebenzya, the Russian envoy to the UN, said there are no grounds for artificial deadlines and accused the west of moralising against Russia. UN's outgoing Syria envoy wants regime to stop being obstructive 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z And yet they are too wittily handled for easy moralising. Tommy Orange’s debut novel is a work of defiance and recovery 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z It is hardly moralising to suggest so many changes on both sides is also a slight to the robustness of the tournament. England take hand off the throttle in basic misreading of hypotheticals | Barney Ronay 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Critics accuse him of creating a blunt political instrument whose simplistic moralising relies on stereotypical characters. The next Elena Ferrante? The best European fiction coming your way 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z It does not moralise, or point its finger. Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Appointing himself president and defence minister, and ruling by decree after declaring a “state of siege”, Ríos Montt declared that he would, “moralise national life from the top down”. Gen Efraín Ríos Montt obituary 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But neither do we need moralising from high horses, homophobic or otherwise. Why hasn’t the gay community had a #MeToo moment? | Michael Segalov 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Video games, for all their newfound cultural hegemony, remain a soft target for sententious conservatives who want to moralise, cost free. No, Mr Trump, video games do not cause mass shootings | Katherine Cross 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z At a press conference on Monday Christensen repeatedly said he would “not be moralised at” by “extreme greens” for the post. Turnbull denounces George Christensen over threatening gun photo 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr Christensen said he would not be "moralised at" by the Greens, who he said supported "illegal activism on mine sites". Australian MP criticised over gun photo 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z But the frenzied passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act through Congress has revealed the insincerity of the party’s fiscal moralising. The Senate passes a tax bill 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Costa-Gavras, the Greek-French director who is head of The French Cinémathèque, insisted it was not the institution’s role to be judge or jury or to moralise, and accused critics of “out-and-out censorship”. Roman Polanski to attend retrospective in Paris despite protest 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Some see this moralising as bluster, designed to burnish the government’s Islamic credentials at a time when it is taking on radical groups. Anti-gay hysteria is on the rise in Indonesia 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z As such, watching him perform should be one of the highlights of the weekend – at least for those who prefer football to vacant moralising and self-hating narcissism. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z You might say it’s the book in which she comes closest to imagining forwards into the moralised world of the great Victorian novels. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z She thinks that public entities like Makerere University "shouldn't pick and choose when to moralise". Mini-skirts and morals in Uganda - BBC News 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Technology and social media are front and centre in most of the stories, but the Canadian writer and artist isn’t moralising. Graphic novelist Jillian Tamaki: 'Our brains are being rewired to exist online' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z This month, these items again fell under the moralising gaze of people higher up the economic food chain. So what if the poor buy avocados – everybody deserves a little luxury | Emma Brockes 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z And in the eyes of some, perhaps many, Le Pen had once again been made the victim for being right – “mistreated” like the nation itself, compelled toward false repentance by a caste of moralising hypocrites. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Personally, I think there’s limited value in moralising with, or fact-checking, regimes that don’t care about morals or facts. Donald Trump: a man so obnoxious that karma may see him reincarnated as himself | Frankie Boyle 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z For women in poorer countries reliant on American aid, their lives have been deemed a fair compromise in service of politicking and moralising. The return of the global gag rule stinks of neocolonialism | Lola Okolosie 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z What Cook himself famously disliked in the finished product – in a conversation recorded by Boswell in 1776 – was Hawkesworth’s moralising; his habit of drawing “a general conclusion from a particular fact”. Lynne Truss: ‘A bad book review can kill you – look at the case of John Hawkesworth’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Although he campaigned to restore US moral authority after the disaster of the Iraq War, he rejected what he saw as the moralising interventionism of the president he replaced, George W Bush. Obama's Syria legacy: Measured diplomacy, strategic explosion - BBC News 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z This would be bad for any party, but the PJD is Islamist and its members are prone to moralising. A “weird and strange” campaign 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Then there was the jarring strand of moralising in the messages the Impact Team did put out. Life after the Ashley Madison affair 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z Speaking to Adrian Goldberg for Radio 4's The Report, Jenni Murray says we need to stop moralising about weight-loss surgery, and that a salad and exercise approach to treating obesity does not work for everyone. Jenni Murray: 'I had 75% of my stomach removed' - BBC News 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z In Daily Mail world, to be female and enjoy yourself is illegal, hence the endless moralising and attempts to undermine her. If your idea of hell is sitting next to Kate Moss on an easyJet flight, you must be dead inside | Suzanne Moore 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Or maybe the government's moralising in the past worked too well. France holds back the anti-smacking tide 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z In less friendly countries, such as China and Iran, the revelations have sparked predictable sniping about how America should not moralise abroad. Shining a light on the past 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Those problems are deep and possibly intractable, whereas the ballad of Oscar and Reeva offered opportunities for easy moralising and much titillation besides. The Pistorius Trial Is a Parable About Celebrity, Not South Africa In my case, I became a BBA by writing about issues such as PTSD, sex and deer hunting without moralising on these topics. 'Am I being catfished?' An author confronts her number one online critic 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z "That will do… all a pillow can do," said Dr Johnson at the end to his carers, and at least he was allowed still to be himself, moralising to a cushion. How do we give dignity to the dying? 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z One reason why some people oppose a change to the law, commentators suggest, stems from their dislike of moralising or state interference. France holds back the anti-smacking tide 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z The reality: Actually, we could falsely moralise all day about the appropriateness of a man in Hodgson’s position using such post-9pm language, or wonder about his professionalism or temper, but we’ll give you this one. Roy Hodgson’s f-word rant: where fact and fiction collide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z "Well, I have tried all my political life to do things ... not to moralise by the way, I don't feel our job is to be alternative vicars ..." And for once he can't complete his sentence. Gordon Brown's battle for Britain: 'You have to think about 100 years down the line' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z I’m not moralising here, but the fact is without adverts a lot of the internet couldn’t find any way to find its existence. Would You Pay $250 A Year For An Advert-Free Internet? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z In the early 20th Century, sex changes, as they were then usually known, were so rarely reported that stories evoked amazement rather than moralising. How Kellie Maloney shows things have changed 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Brandis couldn’t help the egotism of placing himself at the centre of a grand historical mission against the “moralising new secular left” that sought to control speech and control thought. Racial vilification laws: checkmate for Andrew Bolt – and George Brandis's ego 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z "He is always five steps ahead on social issues - he doesn't moralise, he is just always ready to move on." The 90-year-old sex guru 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Thus, while they appear contradictory, moralising ideologies can provide useful cover for corruption. Because we’re worth it 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z "I will not accept a false moralising narrative against Israel in our parliament, in our Knesset. Certainly not in German," . Israeli MPs heckle Schulz speech 2014-02-12T18:51:35Z In the late 18th century attitudes towards the poor took on a moralising tone. Free exchange: Penury portrait 2013-07-25T14:59:44Z I’m not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. Why Opt-In Porn Is a Terrible Idea 2013-07-22T15:48:21Z I'm not making this speech because I want to moralise or scaremonger, but because I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come. Online pornography 'to be blocked' 2013-07-22T03:49:04Z We're not trying to moralise however, even if we do mention the Biblical Book of Revelation a lot in the film. Friends reunite for Seth Rogen's This Is The End 2013-06-28T02:03:41Z In another speech in May he said corporate tax had become a "perfect political football" and urged the prime minister to stop "moralising" on how multinational corporations should be taxed. Cadbury defends corporate citizenship record in wake of tax revelations 2013-06-21T18:13:33Z Business has urged politicians to focus on setting laws and not "moralising". Tax avoidance sinful, says Sentamu 2013-06-17T14:40:00Z Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty Images The bosses of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations have urged to stop moralising and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a summit next month. Multinational CEOs tell David Cameron to rein in tax avoidance rhetoric 2013-05-20T20:02:32Z Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters The president of the CBI is delivering a firm message from some of Britain's largest employers to , calling on him to stop "moralising" on how multinational corporations should be taxed. David Cameron told to stop moralising to multinationals over tax 2013-05-20T14:44:00Z Madame Tussauds said it "never comments or moralises on the character or specific activities of those figures we include". Museum removes Ken Barlow waxwork 2013-05-12T16:32:45Z He finished three shots shy of the lead as it stood at the time, so the world was spared a lot more moralising. Tiger Woods finds trees and gives himself too much to do in Augusta 2013-04-15T00:14:00Z Business organisations have warned politicians against "moralising" about the issue and said it is the task of governments to set the laws regarding tax and for firms to abide by them. Tax avoidance sinful, says Sentamu 2013-06-17T14:40:00Z People will moralise, but secretly they'll enjoy it; it's the guiltiest of pleasures. Newcastle United v Sunderland – live! 2013-04-14T10:07:09Z Simon Hollis: My first album was The Kids From Fame, the remarkable spin-off from the gently moralising, musically uneven TV series. First records, and where you bought them 2013-01-24T02:28:29Z In this instance, the moralising mob is mistaken. Helen Flanagan was a guilty of a silly stunt, nothing more 2012-12-23T00:08:36Z Dishonesty about poverty, its causes, effects and cures, infects almost everything Duncan Smith says, as he pours an unction of moralising over the hardship he causes. No amount of moralising will alleviate the hardship caused by Tory austerity 2012-11-19T21:13:00Z Neither they nor Cameron acknowledged that with six unemployed people for every vacancy, it is disgraceful to cloak the slashing of benefits with windy moralising. The week I shed my anti-Tory taboos 2012-10-13T23:04:28Z Rather than just moralise at the islands, Whitehall and Westminster should tighten up the UK's own regulations – and increase demands for financial transparency. Crown dependencies: the Loophole Islands 2012-06-28T22:14:49Z Republican strategists used to assume that social issues were a vote-winner for them; now they seem to worry that too much righteous talk will put off centrists by making the party seem unpalatably moralising. Lexington: Moral quandary 2012-05-24T15:10:30Z A solitary sentry is discovered moralising upon the proceedings in "that House." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z It's easy to reconstruct the rest of the conversation down to the inevitable, 'For God's sake, shut up,' with which Kuno put an end to Melpomene's dismayed moralising. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z "We must not moralise," said the master of Lower House, briskly. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The gallant knight was in a meditative mood and inclined to moralise. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z But I must not moralise, but tell you something of our journey. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralising which inveighs against the form of passion as such. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It was now too late to moralise on his absurdities, since philosophical reflections could not alter what was done, and the most wholesome resolutions would not bring him back his money. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Preach′y, given to tedious moralising.—Preach down, and up, to decry, or the opposite. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The Rector hardly knew whether to be pleased or sorry at this vein of moralising that had lately come over his brother. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z Such," moralises Ringrose,227 "is the procedure of these wild men, that they care not in the least whom they lose of their company or leave behind. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z To the ordinary moralising standpoint they seem severally to be, in their separation, charged with independent value. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z I could not help smiling at Cecil's humble substitute for the care of Providence, and inwardly moralising upon the equal inefficacy of others which are in more common repute. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z In becoming moral, man has moralised his gods, who, in their turn, becoming models and authorities, have greatly helped to moralise the race. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z A theory of morals without proof, that is, mere moralising, can effect nothing, because it does not act as a motive. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z "You see, gentlemen, how insecure is earthly power," said the Schnorrer solemnly, while the President breathed stertorously, deaf to his impressive moralising. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z It is this quality which irritates Hamlet, who is otherwise in the whole of this scene in a particularly moralising and philosophic mood, and is by no means "splenetic and rash." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-12-26T03:00:11Z Without the ghost of an intention to moralise, I must be permitted to say, that the youth who finds an undoubted pleasure in working is sure to get on in Australia. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Gozzi's predilection for burlesque, his satirical propensity and fondness for moralising on the foibles of his age, found easy vent in the peculiar form he had discovered by a lucky chance. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z So he took the oaths and went away to practice the goose step, and moralise on the oddness of things in the world. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The writer was a strong Protestant, and shared with many of his contemporaries a fondness for moralising. Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z Mr. Andrews has produced a most entertaining book, without departing from authenticated facts, there is no moralising, and the writer never obtrudes himself. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z Upon the Dog defunct that lies Briefest is best to moralise, As every dog, then, let us say, Must have, M'Grath has had his day. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z It is perhaps a folly to moralise on such things; yet the recollection of those mournful portraits gazing down upon me in the squalor of our ancient habitation prompts me to tell an idle truth. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But occasionally we find her descending to more personal matters, rallying him on his bonnes fortunes, and moralising in the style of an indulgent elder brother. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z One either makes it difficult by moralising, or simple by being philosophical and taking all it has to offer. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z The question, moralising friend, contains its own answer: if every one insisted on a share of Leisure, every one also would do a share of work. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z He moralises enough, heaven knows! but he keeps his morality out of his descriptions. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z I had a presentiment of coming troubles, moralised upon the woes of life, and burst into a flood of tears, which made everybody laugh. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z So when we come home from other lands, let us think of golfing holidays in our own, and moralise from old experience. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z But this is not the place to moralise—we must hasten on. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z I was still moralising in this fashion when a smart equipage drove up to the steps, and the Commissionaire once more went forward to do his duty. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z Perhaps in the course of time her moralising analytical tendency encroached too much on the purely artistic faculty. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z This is no invention of moralising critics; it is in the play; and any one familiar with Shakespeare would expect beforehand to find it there. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z And because they do refer to it, the teaching of them should be spiritualised, moralised, humanised; it ought to acquire the concreteness of philosophy, and therefore never ignore the exigencies of art and of religion. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z There, when his wife had lectured, moralised, and harangued, he had rubbed his feet up and down and had fretted the nap off the Brussels carpet. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z In one of these moralising, wandering moods the old hunter was seated on a tree stump on the afternoon of a day that had been more than usually fatiguing to him. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Eventually this moralising Frenchman reached London through Rochester, which place was one long street inhabited solely by ships’ carpenters and dockyard men. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z He is moralising on the Parisian ladies, when a cloud of dust and the clatter of cavalry give a new turn to his reflections. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z There was Betterton in wig and gown—as Cato, moralising on the soul's eternity, and halting between Plato and the dagger. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Their sudden and painful fall proved an occasion for much moralising. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z In the circle of a Court there was equal peril in moralising, which was deemed to be a rebuke, as in applying rusty stories, which were considered as nothing less than disguised personalities. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z I am not going to moralise on this event now, and only allude to it as it affects the story of my own life. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z I am in the mood for moralising, you see. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z “You are in exceeding good humour,” said the friend of this morose and moralising bridegroom. Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 2011-04-15T02:00:18.057Z Gray was a master of the art of delicate moralising. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z It was the mode of that age thus to moralise, or allegorise, on the common acts of life, and to sanction their idlest amusements by some religious motive. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In that case Mr. Cleve Verney might moralise with an income of precisely two hundred a year, for the rest of his days, upon the transitory nature of all human greatness. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Dr. Heriot was given to moralising, she knew, but it was a little forced this evening. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z The moralising might be good, but the moralist was, Algernon thought, badly fitted with his part. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z The stanzas that follow are splendid stanzas, but they are the stately and sonorous verse of a detached and moralising mind, not the pathetic verse of a sympathising heart. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z In his songs, and in his letters, he frequently moralised on independence of character and the value of liberty. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z He not only presents his characters, but moralises over them—actually cares whether they are good or bad, and has yearnings after the indefinable. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z The "Fool i' the Forest" moralised not more quaintly over the wounded deer, than I could sometimes over those prostrate and mangled trees. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z Yet he will not fail to moralise, as he strolls in Poets' Corner, upon the inexorable justice with which time repudiates fictitious reputations and twines the laurel on only the worthiest brows. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Orwell was, as Cyril Connolly put it, "incapable of blowing his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry". The Spin 2010-12-21T11:08:25Z He moralises in this quotation not as one of the ‘unco guid,’ but as a man on what he thought was one of life’s most perplexing problems, poverty. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Professor Norton’s mind was deeply moralised, discriminating, and sad; and these qualities rightly seemed American to the French observer of New England, but they rightly seemed un-American to the politician from Washington. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z People do all manner of bad things, but governments choose which ones to chastise with moralising urgency. Labour needs to find a retort to Osborne's anti-scrounger rhetoric 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z Anyway, enough moralising - this is the Fiver, not the Daily Heil. The Fiver 2010-05-17T15:54:00Z There has been a generally muted and fudged response to the prospect of Chelsea as champions, a lack of the accustomed simplistic and broad-brush moralising. Barney Ronay: Is John Terry Chelsea's secret hero? 2010-04-16T23:20:00Z It was due to the consistently-pursued management of a series of distinguished men as the result of their moralising influence. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Natural science then took a moralising turn which it has not yet quite outgrown. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z But I must have done with moralising and proceed to business. Butterflies and Moths (British) Might it not be possible to moralise the pagan system without discrediting its authors, to reconcile the claims of reason and conservative religious feeling? Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius One moralised at some length on the sad end of the deceased, and enlarged on the evils of drinking. The Man Who Rose Again The Church absolutely required secular independence in order to maintain in living energy this moralising influence, to fulfil this her great mission. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Interpretation of a Passage of the Bible. n a country where everyone moralises, one may expect to find a great number of proverbs, those time-honoured oracles of the wisdom of nations. Friend Mac Donald No one thinks any more of making the one moralise than the other. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Nay, the vision is moralised almost in Christian fashion. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius But I am no padre, and must not commence to moralise or preach. Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude In like manner he lacked pathos, and never strove to moralise the themes he treated. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second "Ah!" said the same old gentleman, as he stood moralising by his side, "the same luck never comes twice—she should have tried other numbers." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 I was very young then, and thought a great deal of my pretty bits of writing and those seductive scraps of moralising, against which Mr. Stevens was always warning me. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. But we need not moralise, any more than Petronius. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This original matter, however, is drowned in a deluge not merely of moralising but of didactic verse of all kinds. A Short History of French Literature Let us go about and moralise cheaply on the tombstones, trailing the robe of pious reflection up and down the pathways of the grave. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel “Being a friend to an unsuspicious man is about the most unpleasant post on the face of the earth,” said Pratt, moralising, as he saw his friend stride away. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One Putting by moralising for the present, let us glance at the incidents which transpired on the news of the desertion of the Arab camp becoming generally known. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa The fate of the departed friend unfortunately leads him to moralise on the weakness of mortal men, mere insects, or bubbles on the stream. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Plutarch, on the other hand, expressed, more than any other author, the practical and moralising spirit which accompanied this taste for romance. A Short History of French Literature It was a sight which set Jack moralising, for here, before his eyes, was a gorgeous scene, a fit subject for any artist. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War One could moralise here if one had time. Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal Of what hideous debauch can he tell; and here stuffed, and painted, and bewigged, made up from top to toe, he has come to mourn, not to moralise, over the past. Here and There in London A discourse on mirrors would hardly seem to lend itself to moralising. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The author takes what he considers to be the chief grievances in Church and State, and dilates upon them in the manner, half moralising, half allegoric, which was popular. A Short History of French Literature On the day when I returned from moralising on the vanity of life over the grave of Fox, I received a letter, a trumpet-call to the mêlée, from Mordecai. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 We must state, moralise, explain, analyse motives, because we try to fit into a steam civilisation the old horse-plough of our fathers. A Novelist on Novels He remembered that when the Cardinal moralised he meant a treachery, and now he stood on his guard. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The conversation is of the true bourgeois tone, with all its emphasis on the obvious, its unctuous moralising, its platitudes consecrated by their antiquity. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius With all this there is a considerable vein of moralising in Brantôme which serves to throw up the relief of his actual narratives. A Short History of French Literature And we proceeded to reflect on the frailty of our memories, moralising in a strain that would have done honour to Dr Johnson. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 And that leads me to venture upon a little piece of moralising, the first and last, I trust, I shall indulge in. Long Live the King It is all the resemblance that exists between us, Bob; not, however, that I believe Baron Rothschild himself could moralise over the insufficiency of wealth to happiness as I could. A Rent In A Cloud Socrates, therefore, sought to direct and moralise a force already existing. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion By degrees they become more definitely didactic, and at last allegorical moralising masters them as it does almost every other kind of poetry in the fourteenth century. A Short History of French Literature It is, however, not merely the belief in the next world that may come to be sanctified by religion and moralised. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The blinding and perverting influence of passion on reason has been a favourite theme with moralists ever since man began to moralise, and is acknowledged in many a popular proverb. Logic, Inductive and Deductive Nothing was too small to attract him, because he discovered a meaning in everything, and he was therefore never dull, for even when he moralised he would light up his reflections by some happy anecdote. Studies in Contemporary Biography Yet while "so many of our poorest subjects are yet asleep," let us re-point the nib of our pen, and in the eye of the sweet-breathed morning—moralise. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The complement and counterpart of this moralising on human business and pleasure is necessarily to be found in chronicles of that business and that pleasure as actually pursued. A Short History of French Literature Reality, that is to say, is in the making; the spirit of man is self-realising; being is in process of becoming rationalised and moralised; religion in process of disappearing. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion Pepys, beholding the latter sight from a balcony, was led to moralise on the mutability of human opinion. Books Condemned to be Burnt From them, he is naturally led to think of children who form an equally good theme on which to moralise. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare But let us retrace our footsteps in moralising mood, not unmixed with sadness—to the Mausoleum of Burns. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) He is a great moraliser; and what makes him worth attending to is, that he moralises on his own feelings and experience. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature We may say, then, that being is becoming rationalised and moralised as and because the spirit in man realises itself. An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion The ordinary public was rather slow in recognising their merits, and as a rule only estimated poetry when it had an edifying and moralising tendency. Rembrandt's Amsterdam Men are certainly not to be moralised by teaching them a moral catechism: tribunals and prisons do not diminish vice; they pour it over society in floods. The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris Minnie would moralise finely on that, if she were to hear it. A Country Gentleman and his Family Jaques they are fine subjects to moralise upon at leisure, “under the shade of melancholy boughs.” Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature You feel inclined to linger here, and moralise upon the theme. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 “Ah, well, that’s what they all said of you,” moralised the girl; “such a tongue to come round—such a flattering tongue!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Men are to be moralised only by placing them in a position which shall contribute to develop in them those habits which are social, and to weaken those which are not so. The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris Well, onward they marched, and they moralised still. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 Yes, I told myself, I hated the daily round of Fleet Street, with its never-slackening demand for the production of restrained moralising, polished twaddle, and non-committal, two-sided conclusions, or careful omissions, and one-eyed deductions. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography "He is reaping as he has sown," we moralise. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching It is very seldom that I indulge in moralising in this Journal of mine; if anybody ever reads it, what will they care for my feelings and regrets? The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III From a scientific point of view the moralising is irrelevant. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The effect, moralising or the reverse, on the prisoners, who could by no means get themselves off to sleep at six o'clock, was of the supremest indifference to everyone concerned. The Benefactress He gazed and wondered, and moralised secretly in his own mind, what was to become of the girl?—what could she do? The Doctor's Family I am moralising, I fear, however, for these suburban buildings grievously encourage the philosophic habit. Another Sheaf All the world recognises you in the character of a moralising recluse, and all the carnival world will surely make you its victim. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba This'—for in Hazlitt lies a personal application in all his moralising—'This is better than the whirligig life of a court poet'—such, for example, as Robert Southey. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) We shall be able to moralise some moments upon subjects, which we have already discussed. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX The Ainos, in their humble way, are addicted to moralising and to speculating on the origin of things. Aino Folk-Tales How can you eat, drink, walk, sleep, pray, worship, moralise, sentimentalise, or love, without them? The Book of Khalid "Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralise my song," says Spenser, and it is with these well-worn but ever-fresh subjects that the story deals. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The poem is in fact a political, moral, and religious disquisition interspersed with charming vignettes, which, though not obtrusively moralised, illustrate the general thesis. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Sometimes there would be an attempt to moralise. Lover or Friend They went over this melancholy, medical prison, Lee moralising philosophically enough all the time to keep his companion perfectly at ease. Practical Education, Volume I From this he may be led to moralise further. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science It was already strongly implanted in the mind of the eighteenth century "business man," who moralised upon the excesses resulting from high wages much in the tone of the business man of to-day. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production He is too fond, it has been said, of incessant moralising. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She picked to pieces the griefs they brought upon her, dissected them, and moralised upon them; and, in so doing, forgot the personal application. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius While Burrell read Dalton's communication, thus whimsically but carefully conveyed, Robin had ample time to moralise on and observe all around him. The Buccaneer A Tale To moralise to the dipsomanic is but lost effort, one may as well abuse a driver for not stopping his bolting horses. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science It is fair, however, to say that these accesses of morality or moralising are not very frequent. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century And even from a biographical point of view his moralising is often troublesome. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "There are good characters and there are bad characters," Uncle James moralised. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius He read Télémaque, which deeply impressed him, and, as he thought, implanted in his mind the seeds of later moralising. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. "I am surprised that in our days, in this century of enlightenment, any one should still persist in proscribing an intellectual relaxation that is inoffensive, moralising, and sometimes even hygienic; is it not, doctor?" Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life I am growing old, taciturn, crotchety, strict; I seldom laugh, and people say I am growing like Radish, and, like him, I bore the men with my aimless moralising. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories There are times, of course, when this moralising tendency leads him to the regions of the namby-pamby or sheer prosaic platitude. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Walker did not answer, and the doctor proceeded to moralise. The Explorer It lends itself to the babbling of extreme youth and to the pompous moralising of extreme middle-age. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Probably, however, he was dearer to their wives; it is chiefly women who support this kind of moralising. The Cornwall Coast My dear boy, you are really beginning to moralise. The Picture of Dorian Gray O stars and garters! how bored I am by this trite, moralising way of regarding natural phenomena—this crying of vanity on the beautiful manifestations of mechanical forces. More Trivia The history of the Church abundantly shows the dangers that have sprung from the Confessional, though the Roman Catholic will maintain that its habitually restraining and moralising influence greatly outweighs these occasional abuses. The Map of Life Conduct and Character But there is no more in it than a clever sort of intellectual photography, no more in it than a more or less moralised version of the ordinary facts of an average person's life-story. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations If you reject my tribute due, I'll moralise—despite of you. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) It is true that he never moralises, as Fielding does; but then the interjection by the author of moral reflections went out, as we have said, with Thackeray. Studies in Literature and History And while they moralised upon the nothingness of his life, his corpse, the remains of nothing, was receiving the honours of death. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 However, they all laughed just the same, except me, and I moralised upon it thus. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I This is right and proper in its place, and a good antidote to the tedious moralising of the past generation. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Amidst the galaxy of fair, Who do not moralise, the ear Might be offended to be told That beauty ever can grow old. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) In the story of Esmond Thackeray dropped the satirical tone, and indulged very rarely indeed in the habit of pausing to moralise, as writer to reader, upon social hypocrisy, servile obsequiousness, and whited sepulchres generally. Studies in Literature and History Thus saying she disappeared, leaving the Kingfisher to moralise upon her speech. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) What a subject for contemplation and for moralising! The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I It is pleasant enough that you force us to moralise; but, wretch, if the voice of truth and of penitence were to echo down from heaven, you would close your ears to it. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom To moralise a theme is duty: My muse shall moralise of beauty. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) He constantly resumes the moralising attitude; and his pungent persiflage is poured out, as if from an apocalyptic vial, upon worldliness and fashionable insolence. Studies in Literature and History There was no time to moralise on the hellish side of modern war. The Kangaroo Marines O for one laugh of Rabelais, To rout these moralising croakers! The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly But I have no time to moralise on these matters. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland On one occasion he dropped a caustic remark about the bigots who contend that God is a moralising censor. The Goose Man Some of the myths, which are re-told from one generation to another, may be capable of becoming civilised and moralised in proportion as do those who tell them; but some are not. The Idea of God in Early Religions However, there wasn't time to romance or moralise. The Kangaroo Marines It is not the gods who moralise man, it is man who moralises the gods. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative It seems needful to explain that it is not so much that a social life passed in peaceful occupations is positively moralising, as that a social life passed in war is positively demoralising. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics The cabal might make him pause; his own play, profoundly moralised as it was, might cause him to consider. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. What, then, were these myths, with which the moralised community might find itself confronted? The Idea of God in Early Religions From such an over-conscientious conscience, and from its incidents and its counterfeits, there is bred a redundancy of verbal moralising. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement But I will not—here at least—plunge into a moralising strain. The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3) Those inclined to moralise may see in these words a proof that the arrogance of the great man's flunkey was curbed in England earlier than in Italy. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Its purpose is to moralise life, and the chief means of moralisation is that effusive sensibility which is the outflow of the inherent goodness of human nature. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. "You are in exceeding good humour," said the friend of this morose and moralising bridegroom. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 But Franklin had no intention apparently, to moralise. Chance A Tale in Two Parts He went down to the beach and rowed away, leaving Moses to moralise on the uncertainty of all human affairs. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters The trapper, although fond of moralising, was not prone to indulge in sentiment when circumstances called him to action. Wrecked but not Ruined Next instant the door was shut with a bang and locked; so Willie Willders descended to the street, and turned his face homewards, moralising as he went on the evils of drink. Fighting the Flames We have warned you against moralising: let us now say a word or two on the subjects of description and declamation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 This moralising leads up to the fact that while my own letter to Delphine lay unfinished on my desk, a note arrived from Ralph Maplestone, to give me grave news of her husband. The Lady of the Basement Flat "It will be a lesson!" said the moralising matron of the workhouse, as, after a sound scolding, she fed the little culprit and put him to bed. Jesse Cliffe Upon the whole it may, I think, be said that the character of Skimpole is rather a piece of brilliant moralising than of pure observation or creation. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens And who would say that her moralising was wrong? Wilton School or, Harry Campbell's Revenge In him truly the bibliomania may be counted among the many illustrations of the truth so often moralised on, that the highest natures are not exempt from human frailty in some shape or other. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author The process of acquisition is a moralising influence, since it incites the individual to work, and tends to create and foster among men interchange of service. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Ah well, to the devil with all moralising! The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Dickens’s history will always be popular with the young; almost as popular as Dickens’s novels, and for the same reason: because it is full of moralising. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens "Then no wonder such a creature as that," she lightly moralised, "won't suit you!" The Finer Grain It was finis, with a little moralising flourish, that Mrs. Highmore seemed to trace to-day at the bottom of the page. Embarrassments Don’t you, Paul?” said Reuben Cole, in a moralising tone. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy Mrs. Harper was standing moralising on the ins and outs of family life, from which her own experience had hitherto been so free. Agatha's Husband A Novel No, not everything; you don’t enjoy baccy, you know.—But please, sir, don’t go for to moralise; I can’t stand it. Black Ivory In other circumstances he might have moralised on this curious fact. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers “Come, Jeff, clap a stopper on your long-winded lectures, and go ahead wi’ the next plan,” said the captain, “and don’t moralise if you can help it.” Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman “Come now, don’t moralise, Charlie, for we must act just now.” Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines “It’s a queer story,” said Hunky Ben, who, besides being what his friends called a philosopher, was prone at times to moralise. Charlie to the Rescue For some time I lay in my bunk moralising on the madness of those who choose the sea for a profession. Battles with the Sea It was a sight to study and moralise over—the countenances of these banished men. Away in the Wilderness “Ah! boy—same with men as trees,” remarked the captain, moralising. The Crew of the Water Wagtail All this did Lancey see from his secret point of observation, and deeply did his philosophic mind moralise on what he saw. In the Track of the Troops Charlie was not given to moralising, but somehow he could not help it that day. The Settler and the Savage “Oh bother! don’t moralise, man, but let’s have your opinion of the weather, which is an all-important subject just now.” Rivers of Ice Mr Ravenshaw was left alone, moralising on the depravity of human nature. The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood Rais Ali hurried away, leaving the sailor to observe and moralise on all that passed around him. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale The Dutch poet Katz has a poem on the "Games of Children," where all the games are moralised; I suspect the taste of the poet as well as his subject is puerile. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 It used to be thought clever to moralise and to felicitate mankind over the rejection of the stays, the fetters, the prison in which its thought was mediævally kept. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) I moralised upon this, and came to the conclusion, that, whatever a tailor might be, a sailor is no match for a tailor’s daughter, born and bred up at Chatham. Rattlin the Reefer I could see my wickedness, and moralise upon it; but the devil was triumphant within me, and I consoled myself with the vulgar adage, “Needs must when the devil drives.” Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer “Oh, I do not wish to moralise—but I repent of my share in the deceit; and had it to be done over again I would not consent to it.” Mr. Midshipman Easy During my stay with him he used all methods to make me as easy as possible; and frequently moralised with so much effect, that I was almost convinced I ought to submit and be content. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) I will not stop to moralise on that subject, yet I have often since thought that it is one worthy of deep consideration. Hurricane Hurry I gazed upon the recumbent figure before me, so still, so living, and yet so death-like—and moralised upon the utter deception of appearances. Rattlin the Reefer “So is it,” he moralised, “with vicious propensities; the nature of the plant must be changed, or the branches will spring forth, and evil fruit will continually be produced.” The Seven Champions of Christendom I am not in the vein to moralise in this way, so I must speak plainly. Burr Junior It is useless to moralise on this, and the purport and significance of it may be left for private meditation to enucleate and enjoy. Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne But Joshua was in a moralising mood, and though Lilac’s question gave him another subject to discourse on, he was more bent on hearing himself talk than in getting over her difficulty. White Lilac; or the Queen of the May The attempt to refine tragedy was as hopeless as the attempt to moralise comedy. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The young people both noticed it, and dimly suspected a deeper meaning to the words, but they were in no mood for moralising. Betty Trevor We were moralising how— “Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still.” She and I, Volume 1 I asked, when Ben had finished his little bit of moralising, apropos of international differences. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace “It makes one believe there’s some truth in the saying that every man has his niche waiting for him somewhere in life,” moralised Mr Herapath. The Master of the Shell Equally ineffective and incongruous are the moralising discourses of which Bussy's ghost is made the spokesman. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois "Fie, for shame!—to take all the confections to yourself!" moralised the little Queen-bee to the little S——ne,—a fat, quiet boy, who took the confections and the reproof with the same stoical indifference. The Home To anyone who is inclined to moralise on the singular discrepancies of human life this state of the case will be fruitful of much profound speculation. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation In other words, growth, provided that it is healthy, harmonious, and many-sided, provided that it is growth of the whole being, is in itself and of inner necessity the most moralising of all processes. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular He could not, indeed, help introducing a little moralising, for he was a typical English middle-class dissenter. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Sc. 3., where the French locals are moralising upon Bertram's profligate pursuit of Diana: "Now God delay our rebellion—as we are ourselves, what are we?" Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Thus gently moralised the mother; whilst, with the help of her eldest daughter, the little prudent Louise, she cared for the other children. The Home The communication about the rebel gathering at Nieuwjaarsfontein moved him to moralise. On the Heels of De Wet Nay, it is the only moralising process, for in no other way can what is naturally good be transformed into what is ideally best. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular They must, indeed, keep in mind Mr. Ruskin's excellent canon—that good fruit, even in moralising, can only be borne by a good tree. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) For the disease did not come our way, and we moralised on the sins of the townsfolk with sound bodies and contented minds. Simon Dale Lord Faulconcourt, his Grace is moralising on the barbarity of the chase.' The Young Duke Men moralise among ruins, or, in the throng and tumult of successful cities, recall past visions of urban desolation for prophetic warning. Tancred Or, The New Crusade We are now in a position to estimate the respective values, as moralising influences, of the path of self-realisation and the path that leads to "results." What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular He boasts That not in fancy's maze he wandered long, But stooped to truth and moralised his song. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) The first used generally to be a pretty old coat that had lived to moralise over the mutability of human affairs—thread-bare—napless—and what ignorant people might have called shabby-genteel. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 You should moralise in a drawing-room; and so let me propose our return to that world which must long have missed us. The Young Duke We moralise among ruins: it is always when the game is played that we discover the cause of the result. Tancred Or, The New Crusade O Love! in vain they moralise; in vain they teach us thou art a delusion; in vain they dissect thine inspiring sentiment, and would mortify us into misery by its degrading analysis. Henrietta Temple A Love Story And a great deal of Pope's moralising is of the same order. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Yet could we sit and moralise, and intellectualise, for hours at this window, nor hear the striking clock. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The moralising instinct is very weak in me. The Patient Observer And His Friends One cannot moralise and be shocked before an advancing tidal wave. Robin How the Count Mirabel did laugh at those poor devils who wake only to moralise over their own folly with broken spirits and aching heads! Henrietta Temple A Love Story Then the satirist moralises; "Did you ever know a right-minded woman pardon another for being handsomer and more love-worthy than herself?" Thackeray I am not fit to moralise about his relations with women; I only know that he was a sinner, and I think of his temptations. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Its sub-title was—New Foes with an Old Face,—its preface elaborates the moral and spiritual ideas that it teaches, the very titles of the chapters bear biblical phrases and classical moralising as their style. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Following him through the streets, into billiard-room and restaurant, one moralises on the sad necessity that compels this splendid dignitary to play the part of a common policeman. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Thank God, they have only to bear their own disappointments and their own privations; but it is in vain to moralise. Henrietta Temple A Love Story The habit of his mind impelled him to sneer as he stood above it, to moralise in the tune of cynicism. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Moralising is waste of time, but one might almost moralise to the extent of boredom concerning the life of Billy Devine, boozer, actor, betting-man. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary But it is, after all, rather facile moralising; its rhetorical artifice has been imitated with success in many a prize essay and not a few tall-talking journals. Studies in Early Victorian Literature But others come perilously near mere versified moralising. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine While Ferdinand was thus moralising at the casement, Glastonbury appeared beneath; and his appearance dissipated this gathering gloom. Henrietta Temple A Love Story From moralising to fishing is a long jump, but we must take the leap and attend to our net again. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles Old Pictures in Florence is a humorous and earnest moralising on the meaning and mission of art and the rights and wrongs of artists, suggested by some of the old pictures in Florence. An Introduction to the Study of Browning The other fifteen stanzas were required for his story; they may be vigorous rhetoric, impressive moralising, but they are too argumentative and too rhetorical to be ballad poetry. Studies in Early Victorian Literature And now, with as little moralising as possible, and no more cautions, let us get along with our story. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' I leave the question to the schoolmen, because I am convinced that to moralise with the inexperienced availeth nothing. Henrietta Temple A Love Story What would a historian be who, instead of making researches, would moralise? Atlantis It is a mingling of music and moralising. An Introduction to the Study of Browning Those we have been examining, complaining about, and moralising over, all our life time. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Nickie put it on in a waggish humour, and stood moralising as three pretty Spanish dancers, in charge of a toreador, passed in. The Missing Link But it is not for the passionate lover to moralise. Henrietta Temple A Love Story What would a physician be who would stop to moralise? Atlantis This is one of the numerous French originals from which Caxton printed his well known moralised work, under the title of the Game and Play of the Chesse. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two These are truths—fixed facts, that quaint theory and exhausted moralising, are impregnable to, and fall harmlessly before. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Nickie the Kid came to Banklands one pleasant summer day, watched the busy people with a desultory sort of interest, and moralised within himself. The Missing Link But just when I began this moralising, the hundred and fifty mules and ponies that have been collected together all broke loose, frightened by some stray shots, and went careering madly around us. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation As for an artist, when he moralises, he is a fool and a knave. Atlantis Albany and Edgar may moralise on the divine justice as they will, but how, in face of all that we see, shall we believe that they speak Shakespeare's mind? Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth We have speculated and moralised much about equality—claiming to be as good as our neighbors, and every body else—all of which, may do very well in ethics—but not in politics. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States One might have moralised to Herschel on the subject of genius and clothes; I did better, I sympathised. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. In this piece, Seneca moralises incessantly with Nero, as if the latter were the most patient of men, and Seneca the most courageous. Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy The annalists moralise on the instability of the magnates; and the sudden revolution may perhaps be set down as much to their incapacity as to the dexterity of the king. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) One can't help moralising; one falls on the metaphysical vein unaware. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II "Ah, you dear women!" moralised the young bachelor. The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year Alluding to the theatrical people, he moralises on the fate of players:— See the strange twirl of times; when such poor things Outlive the dates of parliaments or kings! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Such men as Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and others would never have joined any cause against their convictions; but it won't do for a blockade-runner to attempt to moralise. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha The writer is the most human of the annalists of the reign, prolix, self-conscious, moralising, and somewhat incoherent. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Mr. Wordsworth is "himself alone," a recluse philosopher, or a reluctant spectator of the scenes of many-coloured life; moralising on them, not describing, not entering into them. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution I believe that the singular lack which one feels in reading these poems comes from Morris' dislike of rhetoric and moralising, the two main nerves of eighteenth-century verse. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The moralising and spiritualising of the idea of Jahve lies right upon the face of the Old Testament. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Our philosophers were disgusted that the ministers and churches down there devoted their time to praying and moralising about the earthquake, when only natural phenomena were the cause. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Well—shall we walk and moralise or remain here and make cat-cradle conversation?... The Firing Line In this strain of didactic or sentimental moralising, the lines to Glencairn are the most happy, and impressive. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution For I can "moralise my song" More palpably than Mr. POPE; And I can touch the toiling throng: There is small doubt of that, I hope. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 If the passing-bell tempts me to moralise overmuch I may turn to the creatures, and learn to live for the moment. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary One night about Christmas time, in 1877, Brooklyn Heights was startled by a pistol shot that set everyone in New York and Brooklyn to moralising. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Patriotism thus spiritualised and moralised is the true patriotism. Outspoken Essays The Music-hall Muse, if not exactly impeccably moral, is, at least, good at moralising. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 The poet, in a moralising vein, alludes to the fate of the players as it was affected by the dissolution of the Long Parliament: See the strange twirl of times! A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But the strength of the romantic element in them would have been as little satisfactory to Diderot's love of realistic moralising as the conventional tragedy of the court of Lewis XIV. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Those who moralised about it said, "That's what comes of marrying too young!" T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him The churches, as institutions, will continue for some time to show apparent weakness; and other moralising and civilising agencies will do much of their work. Outspoken Essays Monty, too, as he stood between us, looked on and moralised. Tell England A Study in a Generation It is only on paper that one moralises—just where one shouldn't. Prose Fancies Diderot is always ready to fling away his proper subject in a burst of moralising. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) Others, moralising too, said, "That's what comes of not controlling one's temper." T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him The genial moralising of the latter appears childish by the side of Alfieri's terse philosophy and pregnant remarks on the development of character. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The speaker dropped her voice, as she found herself moralising; and Lady Gray perceived that an atmosphere of tender speculation had risen around their conversation. Tell England A Study in a Generation There is no moralising over these things: love is a hearty feeder, and thrives on a fast-day as well as on a gaudy. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay And Diderot did not merely moralise at large. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) "Oh, it's easy to moralise," she remarked, "but I have enough of that, you know, from Laura." The Wheel of Life To moralise upon its meaning would be out of place. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series It is, therefore, as a civilising and moralising agency that the Congo Government will always be judged at the bar of posterity. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Now Correggio is moralised in neither way—neither as a good nor as a bad man, neither as an acute thinker nor as a deliberate voluptuary. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The evidence is strong that the Mysteries had a real spiritualising and moralising influence on large numbers of those who were initiated, and that this influence was increasing under the early empire. Christian Mysticism Probably both drew their moralising from another author. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 However, the author of this irritating little volume is not always botanising and moralising in this reckless and improper fashion. Reviews How such a belief can be moralising I fail to understand. Prose Fancies (Second Series) Yet the mind of the artist may be highly moralised, and then he takes rank not merely with the ministers to refined pleasure, but also with the educators of the world. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The poet and the moralising philosopher may find food for contemplation in such a scene and such a catastrophe. Nick of the Woods Agricultural life is naturally simpler—might be, it always seems to me, so much more easily moralised and fraternised than the industrial form. Marcella When novelists reflect and moralise, they are, as a rule, dull. Reviews To my mind, indeed, far from being moralising, this belief in immortality is responsible for no inconsiderable portion of the wrong and misery of the world. Prose Fancies (Second Series) It is difficult to leave Correggio without at least posing the question of the difference between moralised and merely sensual art. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series But men in the situation of the travellers have neither time nor inclination for moralising. Nick of the Woods Positivism proposed to attain its Utopia by moralising the capitalists, and herein it showed no advance on Christianity, which for nineteen centuries had in vain preached social obligation to the rich. The History of the Fabian Society "Really, here we are moralising like a couple of old philosophers!" A Tale of a Lonely Parish But she declined it, choosing a less comfortable one, feeling that she must sit straight up if she were to moralise. Evelyn Innes There is a restaurant down below, where the son of the late Yturbide dines daily, and everybody points him out to us, and moralises over him. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Bro and I were moralising about shipwrecks, in the dining-room, when down came the chimney through the skylight into the entrance passage. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) I could see my wickedness, and moralise upon it; but the devil was triumphant within me, and I consoled myself with the vulgar adage, "Needs must when the devil drives." Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer We might moralise over the enormous frivolity which could waste day after day thousands and thousands of pounds upon such transitory pleasures, instead of conferring lasting benefits in the way of hospitals or schools. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul Had her moralising, then, ended in such miserable selfishness as this? Evelyn Innes The reader will understand at once, and save me a world of moralising circumlocution, when he learns, bluntly and nakedly, that, among all my comforts and blessings, I was an infidel. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 Cavour looked upon religion as a great moralising force, and he was well assured that the only form of it acceptable to the Italian people was the Latin form of Christianity established in Rome. Cavour And so goes on to moralise the fable. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 But it is not the object of this book to moralise. Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul And so it is to some extent in "Cooper's Hill," the scene beheld from which is speedily lost in a torrent of political reflection and moralising. Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham Cray stayed behind, pretending he did not belong to us, and he heard a man say, 'Perhaps the gentleman's a parson; that sort always think they ought to be moralising about something or other.' Fated to Be Free At first sight, the show lends itself to cheap moralising, till one recalls that one only sees busy folk when they are idle, and rich folk when they have made their money. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Oh! one is lost in moralising, as one is in astronomy! Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II I have no intention to moralise or to indulge in a homily against the reading of what is deliberately evil. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice Ere we take leave of Settle, it is impossible to omit mentioning his lamentable conclusion; a tale often told and moralised upon, and in truth a piece of very tragical mirth. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author I was in a half moralising mood all the way, wanted to be by myself very much. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss The fairy-tales are at root not only moral in the sense of being innocent, but moral in the sense of being didactic, moral in the sense of being moralising. All Things Considered This belief in the moralising effects of intellectual culture, flatly contradicted by facts, is absurd a priori.... The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) It is written in the fluent and copious vein of mild satire and milder moralising which Crabbe from earliest youth had so assiduously practised. English Men of Letters: Crabbe Mr Crummles being in a moralising mood, might possibly have moralised for some minutes longer if he had not mechanically put his hand towards his waistcoat pocket, where he was accustomed to keep his snuff. Nicholas Nickleby And as to our discourses, my fidgety, moralising sort of mind wants to compare its doctrines with those of other people, though it's as stiff as a poker in its own opinions. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss There was a general moralising upon Pressure, in every street. Little Dorrit There was a general moralising upon Pressure, in every street. The Uncommercial Traveller He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralise about it. White Fang But there was no time to moralise, for the joviality again became very brisk, and the decanter of port being nearly out, brother Ned pulled the bell, which was instantly answered by the apoplectic butler. Nicholas Nickleby He went moralising about the district, but his good work was produced when he returned, not to Nature but to poetry. Intentions He was as imperturbable as ever, to all appearance, and nodded his head in a moralising way as he looked round the room. Little Dorrit A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain. Lady Windermere's Fan The black teapot, being very small and easily filled, ran over while Mrs. Corney was moralising; and the water slightly scalded Mrs. Corney's hand. Oliver Twist The decadence was too tragic to prose about, the decadent too human to moralise on. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies "Perhaps she doesn't understand," I thought, "and, indeed, it is absurd--it's moralising." Notes from the Underground Within view was the peaceful river and the ferry-boat, to moralise to all the inmates saying: Young or old, passionate or tranquil, chafing or content, you, thus runs the current always. Little Dorrit Darlington has been moralising and talking about the purity of love, and that sort of thing, and he has got some woman in his rooms all the time. Lady Windermere's Fan Close associated with this always is the moralising faculty, which is assertive. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial And you, Master, so dep and considerate as you would seem, you have that within you makes the blood boil faster than suits your present humour of moralising on political truths. The Bride of Lammermoor The violet eyes and the heavy chestnut hair rose up in moralising vision. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance ‘Ah, well, that’s what they all said of you,’ moralised the girl; ‘such a tongue to come round—such a flattering tongue!’ Prince Otto, a Romance But, for the most part, the romantic kernel of a story is neither pure picture nor pure allegory, it can neither be painted nor moralised. Robert Louis Stevenson The Hamlet in Stevenson—the self-questioning, egotistic, moralising Hamlet—was, and to the end remained, a something alien to bold, dramatic, creative freedom. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial You may read a moral, not far amiss, If you care to moralise, In the crossing-guard, where the ash-plants kiss, To the words "God spare our eyes". Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon I want a hot poker and a policeman made into sausages, and they give me princesses moralising by moonlight, Blue Birds, or something. The Innocence of Father Brown Essper George stood moralising at the table, and emptying every glass whose contents were not utterly drained, with the exception of the tumblers of the cloth-merchants, of whose liquor he did not approve. Vivian Grey Both, as they grew older, had something of a turn for moralising, and in their copious letters to their several children is evidence of much penitence and puzzling over the disasters of their youth. The Highwayman Few men who have by force of native genius gone into allegory or moralised phantasy ever depart out of that fateful and enchanted region. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial After allowing the old man to moralise to his heart's content, I brought him back politely to the subject in which I was interested. Birds of Prey The work is full of speeches, moralising, and apostrophes. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal "I was thinking, sir," said Essper, with a very solemn look, "that if there were a deceased field-mouse here I would moralise on death." Vivian Grey For so surely as there are honest men to insist how true things are or how proper to moralising, there will be Art to sing how lovely they are, and what amiable dwellings for us. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Almost as prolific as Lope, author of at least two hundred plays, some authorities say a thousand, Calderon was first prodigiously inventive, then he was dogmatic, moralising, almost a preacher. Initiation into Literature Each was sunk in an interesting reverie, cogitating and moralising according to their capacities, and the circumstances so entirely different that caused their thoughts to take the courses they did. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense The greatest poet does not moralise or make applications of morals,—he knows the soul. Poems By Walt Whitman Nay, if we are to moralise on worldly felicity, I fear that instead of inspiriting you, which is my wish, I shall prove but a too congenial companion. Vivian Grey Cousin, in his first manner, revolutionary Schellingism, corresponded to romanticism; his eclecticism as a moralising philosopher corresponds to the School of Common Sense. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth It is a curious subject for the European philosopher to moralise upon and for the politician to examine. Wanderings in South America She had had a good draught from the cup of life, since that other autumn evening, when she stood at this very window, moralising on the transient nature of all mortal things. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense It becomes a moralising force of the most strenuous urgency. Impressions and Comments Ah, what an opportunity is there here to moralise! The Virginians The School of Common Sense is in Denmark partly a worship of the sound sense of the people, partly a moralising tendency. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth A punishment the justice of which is not discernible, may quell for the moment, but it does not moralise, nor abidingly deter. Moral Philosophy Anybody who had come upon the pair on the nights when they made up their accounts, their dark heads touching under the lamp, might have gone away moralising on the charms of fraternal affection. The History of David Grieve Exhausted both in mind and body, the mischief being now done, and being totally unemployed, according to custom, he began to moralise. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla It was the same taste, in essence, our young man moralised, as the taste for M. Gerome and M. Baudry in painting and for M. Gustave Flaubert and M. Charles Baudelaire in literature. Madame De Mauves To this fault is akin the constant moralising tone which reflects rather than paints, enforces rather than elicits its lesson. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius |
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