"Hortatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... principles, our remaining space may best be occupied by a few of the chief maxims and rules deducible from them; and with a view to brevity we will put these in a hortatory form. ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer
... and the Psalm of Life, have had a "damnable iteration" which causes them to figure as Longfellow's most popular pieces. They are by no means, however, among his best. They are vigorously expressed common-places of that hortatory kind which passes for poetry, but is, in reality, a ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers |
