They are didactic in their design, and want the freedom of invention which belongs to Cooper's best novels; but if they had been written by anybody but Cooper,by a member of Congress, for example, or an eminent politician of any class,they would have made his reputation.

Nineteen, and you are already as didactic as seventy.

In the following, which is the most pointedly didactic of all his productions, the characteristic fancy still betrays itself: THE GUIDE-POST.

In this sense they were didactic; but they were no more didactic than the Romanticists and the Pseudo-Classicists who had preceded them.

She sees her darling boy of ten go with his father, aware that at the best she must bear months of silence, knowing that they may perish at sea or fall into the hands of privateers; but she writes with indomitable cheer, sending the lad tender letters of good advice, a little didactic to modern taste, but throbbing with affection.