As Wordsworth's work is too often marred by the moralizer, and Byron's by the demagogue, and Shelley's by the reformer, so Keats's work suffers by the opposite extreme of aloofness from every human interest; so much so, that he is often accused of being indifferent to humanity.

She is more obviously, more consciously a preacher and moralizer than any of her great contemporaries.

Milton, in whom the power of imagination was predominant, soothed his anguish for the loss of his youthful friend, in an irregular, but most beautiful assemblage of those poetic objects which presented themselves to his thoughts, and consecrated them to the memory of the deceased; and Johnson, who loved to act the moralizer and the rhetorician, alleviated his sufferings by declaiming on the instability of human happiness.

There is no morality, you say, so let it beeven though statistics can refute you in that here are not committed crimes like those among other peoples, blinded by the fumes of their moralizers.

There are many things in the world, could a moralizer say, that would afford inexpressible pleasure to a reflecting mind, were it not for the mixture they come to us with.

FAUST Sir Moralizer, prithee, pause; Nor plague me with your tiresome laws!

THE MORALIZER.

Man, in his humanity, is the goal toward which should tend all the efforts and experiments of the art-moralizer.

Aelianus was more of a moralizer than an artist in words; his style has no distinctive literary qualities, and in both of his chief works is the evident intention to set forth religious and moral principles.