The lights of the swift passing boats, and the lights of the stars, were just as in childhood and the old love-time.
Lu, the Sun-God, who in the bright days ofchildhood had appeared to him as his little feet ran from home in search for adventures.
But we never really feel at home there, though childhood may have wreathed round with tender memories old rooms and the quaint garden-places of happy unthinking hours.
They were grave in a way divining How childhood was taking wings, And the wonder world was shining With vast eternal things.
Ah, Eri, in other lands there is strength and mind and the massive culmination of ordered power, but in thee alone is there such love as the big heart of childhood can feel.
By darkened images we may figure something vaguely akin, as when in rare moments under the stars the big dreamy heart of childhood is pervaded with quiet and brimmed full with love.
Its gay, wonderful childhood gave way, as cycle after cycle coiled itself into slumber, to more definite purposes, and now it is old and burdened with experiences.
They were full of a quaint sense of childhood, with sometimes a deeper chord touched--the giant and spiritual things childhood has dreams of.
And of those divine spheres forget the nomenclature; think rather of them as the places of a great childhood you now return to, these homes no longer ours.
I think we will perform our truest service to the Society by regarding it in this way as an actual entity whose baby years and mystical childhood we should foster.
But it is to the giant and spiritual childhood of the young immortals we must return, when into their clear and translucent souls first fell the rays of the father-beings.
In one sense, no doubt, these amusements of childhood are matters of little moment; but, in spite of their seeming triviality, they have a genuine importance which should not be overlooked.
And here, too, the perversity of childhood is displayed.
It is an infinitely higher and holier and happier thing than our childhood fancied.
Manhood discovers what childhood can never divine,--that the sorrows of life are superficial, and the happiness of life structural; and this knowledge alone is enough to give a peace which passeth understanding.
I for one lift up my voice emphatically against the assertion, and do affirm that I think childhood is the most undesirable portion of human life, and I am thankful to be well out of it.
Childhood is pre-eminently the animal stage of existence.
How the idea gained currency, that childhood is the happiest period of life, I cannot conceive.
The only advantage which childhood has over manhood is the absence of foreboding, and this indeed is much.
If childhood is indeed the happiest period, then the mysterious God-breathed breath was no boon, and the Deity is cruel.
Sometimes the place where they have been in childhood is marked throughout life by small round patches of white skin.
The reason they thought to be that the interests of age have contracted to about the same scope as those of childhood before it has expanded into maturity.
Henry made a little conversation with the girls, asking them the list of fatuous questions by which adults seem fated to illustrate the gulf between them and childhood in the effort to bridge it.
With the right knowledge now, the idea and the ideal of hischildhood may become the idea and the ideal of his manhood.
While the establishment of this relationship might be difficult or even impossible later, it is easily begun in childhoodand as easily continued.
The habits of self-reliance, self-control, and right thinking formed through the years of childhood will indeed help now.
In the realm of childhood and innocence, which Wordsworth entered fearfully and pathetically as an alien traveller, he moves with the simple and assured ease of one native.
Will not such an one from his earlychildhood be in all things first among all, especially if his bodily endowments are like his mental ones?
From childhood up I have known him, and never E'en as a boy was he wont to be reaching for this and the other: What he desired was best for him too, and he held to it firmly.
Incidentally he is ambitious to be a dramatic poet, and his childhood is simply that of Wolfgang Goethe.
They stood for my childhoodand my youth; yes, they stood for it, so straight--I must go on.
They argued for some time, and Rose closed her eyes until the talk, never really acrimonious, drifted into reminiscences of their childhood and Reginald's.
It will take years yet before the gaps in the fighting strength of Wessex, left by those nine pitched battles, and other smaller fights, will be filled by the crop of youths passing from childhood to manhood.
It is there he received his first impression of the theater when in his childhood as a reward of merit he was taken to the Francais to see classical plays.
The only verse Louise Guiney prized, was the verse with wings, spontaneous as the gestures of childhood or the oriole’s song.
A long-legged romp in petticoats far beyond the milestones when childhood is apt to slink away abashed before oncoming desires and dignities, she was early in love with the sweet seclusion of books and equally with gay adventure out of doors.
Few royal princes ever had a more unfortunate childhood and youth than Frederick the Great.
He had enjoyed no real childhood and youth, and he soon became hard, cynical, wilful, without morality and even without ambition.
As my hair turns slowly to snow The places of childhoodmore distantly grow; And my dreams are changing.
He had from childhood entertained the belief that there was but one entirely invincible nation on this earth, and that was France; and the thought that to the last France must be honored possessed him.
The School of Childhooduses them extensively, as does The Play School.
But little is known of the childhood of the two brothers.
His childhood was marked by a sprightly grace and beauty which made him a general favourite.
I myself am of opinion that childhood is not the best time to acquire the art of riding.
It may do very well in the wilds of a country whose inhabitants are from childhood accustomed to it, and where all ride alike, but not in civilised England.
It had the ring of childhood in it, though the ring was not pure golden, and at times fell echoless.
He had grown up in the alluring shades of the horse-market, and his daily communion from childhood had been with that "noble animal.
The account of the childhood days upon the plantation at Cannes Brulées may be passed by.
I'll do all I can to help Melissa," said Molly, her eyes still misty over the letter concerning the childhood of the mountain girl.
Edwin Green listened, enchanted at Molly's description of her childhood and the beloved play-house.
From his childhood he had shared the thoughts of his elders; he had ceased to be a boy when he had left Eton at sixteen; and he came up to Cambridge far more of a grown man than nine in ten of his contemporaries.
The land upon which South Kensington has since arisen was a region of market gardens, where in our childhood we strolled with our nurse along genuine country lanes.
From your childhood to this day I have ever shown you by more than words how high an estimate I entertain both of the depth and the breadth of your capacity.
