All sorts of Didactics, of Byronic-Bulwerish sentiment, of conventionalities of various kinds, still hold their place; the language, as we have said, is traditional and hardly even that; and the characters are partly drawn from Noah's Arks of various dates, partly from the stock company of the toy theatre.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
Mirabeau, like Jean Jacques himself, was so impressed by the marked tenor of contemporary feeling, its prudential Didactics, its formulistic sociality, that his native insurgency only found vent in private life, while in public he played pedagogue to the human race.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley
By 1820, in remote Herefordshire, the not yet eleven-year-old poetess had already "cried aloud on obsolete Muses from childish lips" in various "nascent odes, epics, and Didactics."
"Life of Robert Browning"
William Sharp