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The minor expressions by the Greeks in word, in symbol, and in religious service, of this faith, are so many and so beautiful, that I hope some day to gather at least a few of them into a separate body of evidence respecting the power of Athena, and of its relations to the ethical conception of the Homeric poems, or, rather, to their ethical nature; for they are not conceived didactically, but are didactic in their essence, as all good art is.
The exponent of straight backs and high chests explained didactically: "The back is wonderfully expressive; indeed it is full of vital expression. Bernhardt knows this better than any other actress because she has studied statuary with the passion of a sculptor, and because she understands that, not only the face, but the entire physical structure, is capable of expressing dramatic emotions.
"Agreeable conversation," Philippa remarked didactically, "is one of the greatest pleasures in life." "You find Mr. Lessingham very interesting, don't you?" Helen asked. Philippa finished arranging her hair to her satisfaction and drew up an easy-chair opposite her visitor's. "So you want to talk with me about Mr. Lessingham, do you?" "I suppose you know that he's in love with you?" Helen began.
Bingle, rising above his reflections. "By the way, sir, it may interest you to know that I'm getting along nicely with the play." "Good! I'm glad to hear it. They tell me there is a great deal of money to be made out of a good play." "There's a lot to be made out of a successful play. It doesn't follow that it has to be a good one, you know," said Flanders, didactically.
"It shall depend on me!" said Kreutzer, hotly. "There is but one thing which will lighten the severity of the bad girl's punishment," said Mrs. Vanderlyn, didactically. "And that, Madame?" "The immediate restitution of the ring. She is here, now, is she not?" "Yes, she is here, but " The poor old man looked helplessly around him. The whole thing seemed too terrible to be believed.
Then he resumed didactically, but with some irrelevancy, "I tole ye t'other day ez how ye war old enough ter be a-studyin' 'bout gittin' married." "They don't think nothin' of ye ter our house, Jacob. Dad 's always a-jowin' at ye." Cynthia's candor certainly could not be called in question.
"I have known great good to come from great disappointments," remarked Aunt Hannah, a bit didactically. "So have I," laughed Arkwright, still determined to drive the troubled shadow from the face he was watching so intently. "For instance: a fellow I know was feeling all cut up last Friday because he was just too late to get into Symphony Hall on the twenty-five-cent admission.
They like to wait till parties are evenly balanced, till their support makes all the difference, and clinch their bargain then." "I should have said," Pamela remarked, "that Mr. Joyce was a man above that sort of thing." "Every man has his price and his weak spot," her uncle observed didactically. "Joyce's price is the Presidency. His weak spot is popular adulation. I agree with Fischer.
The quiet command to give her food knits the wonder with common life, and teaches precious lessons as to His economy of miraculous power, like His bidding others loosen Lazarus's wrappings, and as to His devolution on us of duties towards those whom He raises from the death of sin. But it was given, not didactically, but lovingly.
She thought of the golden sheen of the cotton, and the cold March winds of New England; of her brother who apparently noted nothing of leaves and winds and seasons; and of the mighty Cresswells whom Miss Smith so evidently disliked. Suddenly she became aware of her long silence and the silence of the boy. "Bles," she began didactically, "where are you from?"
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