If this rudemoralising rhymer really be the poetical father of Gower, then is this antiquated monk the inventor of that narrative poetry which Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, and even some of our contemporaries, have so delightfully diversified.
The fact, however, that he could suspend his moralising to give realistic descriptions at full length, and that they became the most interesting parts of the poem, shows a growing interest in country life.
The fashion of moralising in verse,' he said, had been pushed too far, and he proceeded to startle the orthodox by placing Spenser above Pope.
The Duke's quaint but excellent moralising at the beginning of the third act does but express, like the chorus of a Greek play, the spirit of the passing incidents.
The detail was over, and we were moralising upon the facts, when a servant approached in breathless haste, telling me that he and several of his fellows had been seeking me everywhere, as the Duke had demanded to see me some time before.
This original matter, however, is drowned in a deluge not merely of moralising but of didactic verse of all kinds.
With all this there is a considerable vein of moralising in Brantome which serves to throw up the relief of his actual narratives.
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.
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.
Plutarch, on the other hand, expressed, more than any other author, the practical and moralising spirit which accompanied this taste for romance.
Moralising historians belong to this school, as well as those philosophers who worship evolution.
Perhaps--being in the moralising strain--the honest surgeon at the dispensary might come in as an illustration.
And surely this is a far better and more comfortable system of moralising than that in the fable-books, where you are obliged to accept the story with the inevitable moral corollary that will stick close to it.
There are times, of course, when this moralising tendency leads him to the regions of the namby-pamby or sheer prosaic platitude.
And even from a biographical point of view hismoralising is often troublesome.
From a scientific point of view the moralising is irrelevant.
He was as imperturbable as ever, to all appearance, and nodded his head in a moralising way as he looked round the room.
There was a general moralising upon Pressure, in every street.
The moralising reflection, the satirical tendency, the declamatory form of the Romans, all had an irresistible attraction for him.
The ironic philosopher might find some cause formoralising in the fact that it was not till Bertha began to hate Edward that he found marriage entirely satisfactory.
The village community maintained much of the tradition and custom that tend to develop group self-consciousness with its moralising influence.
Such group self-consciousness is the principal moralising influence, and to this influence is due in the main the fact that savages conform so strictly to their accepted moral codes.
With Mr Cornford's view of the part played by the group spirit in moralising conduct I agree.
Guiraut's poems were so far in harmony with the moralising tendency of that age that his posthumous reputation was certainly as great as any that he enjoyed in his life-time.
Didactic poetry includes historical works such as the poem of the Albigeois crusade, ethical or moralising ensenhamens and religious poetry.
Old Pictures in Florence is a humorous and earnestmoralising on the meaning and mission of art and the rights and wrongs of artists, suggested by some of the old pictures in Florence.
This is my way of moralising when I go into a fight (which has been very often), and if for the good of old England, I do not care how soon we have another.
Moralising will not do now; death or glory, a golden chain or a wooden leg, "England expects every man will do his duty.
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.
I was in a half moralising mood all the way, wanted to be by myself very much.
But I cannot so easily give up, nor will the world be in any haste to part with his Elegy in a Country Church-yard: it is one of the most classical productions that ever was penned by a refined and thoughtful mind, moralising on human life.
Moralising reflection is the awakening of subjectivity and of a deeper personality.
To the ordinary moralising standpoint they seem severally to be, in their separation, charged with independent value.
It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocritical moralising which inveighs against the form of passion as such.
All the world recognises you in the character of a moralising recluse, and all the carnival world will surely make you its victim.
He could not help moralising upon this rencontre, which inspired him with great contempt for human nature.
There have been instances, both in Pagan and Christian times, of a sceptical and highly educated ruling class supporting and allying themselves with a superstitious Church as the best means of governing or moralising the masses.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moralising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
