It seemed to me so natural, nurtured in the same impossible dreams, that I saw nothing ludicrous in his hopes.
My conversation became prematurely advanced in terms and principles, and my childish confidence was nurtured by nothing less wonderful than books and theories, experiments and dissertations.
As there never was genius untinged by melancholy, so may it be doubted whether there ever was greatness of character which had not been nurtured in the school of great affliction.
In lonely musings she solaced herself, and nurtured her own thoughts by writing.
She soon gave birth to a daughter, her only child, whom she nurtured with the most assiduous care.
Hassan saw that her mind was overpowered by exhaustion, but he so much feared the effect of the wet clothing on her delicately nurtured frame that he decided to reach the fire with as little delay as possible.
It is this passion which must be nurtured in our childhood, for upon its healthy growth and vigour depends the future expansion of the mind.
The frigate was got under weigh by the first lieutenant, and, before the sun had disappeared, was bounding over the foaming seas in the direction of the country which had nurtured to maturity the gnarled oak selected for her beautiful frame.
Lean, badly nurtured children, not in the least resembling the elves in the Champs Elysees and the Park Monceau, tumbled about in the crowded walks.
Hers was the keen true spirit, that confest That she was nurtured in no garden bowers, Nor taught to deck her brow with cultured flowers, Nor by the soft and summer wind carest.
I know that that ambition is not at all personal to himself, but indulged in and nurtured on my account, and for my advancement in life.
The children thus nurturedwere universally termed parisheens, because it was found more convenient and less expensive to send a country foundling to the hospital in Dublin, than to burden the inhabitants of the parish with its maintenance.
And, meanwhile, as I grew in grace of spirit, so too did I grow in grace of body, waxing tall and very strong, which would have been nowise surprising but that those nurtured as was I are seldom lusty.
At Mondolfo they had so nurtured me and so sheltered me from the stinging blasts of the world that I was grown into a very ripe and succulent fruit for the Devil's mouth.
There can be no doubt but that this is perfectly true, and, despite all that horridly blunt philanthropists say to the contrary, it is a quality to be nurtured rather than despised.
Henry of Burgundy and his knights early introduced Provençal poetry, and the native genius was nurtured in the succeeding age by Spanish and Italian taste, and afterwards modified by the influence of French and English civilization.
But that the widow lady still nurtured her feeling of enmity for Miriam was evident from the hundred and one petty ways in which she contrived to show her spite.
That the church was the shepherd-fold of the soul, that he would be nurtured and taught, that by and by these doubts and fears would not trouble him.
He did not quite see it, how he was to be nurtured on the distant battlefield of France, but it was a mystical thing, anyway, and he accepted the statement and let it go at that.
The old man had nurtured his pride, had applauded it as a mark of proper spirit; and now it was this same pride that had robbed him of the one thing he loved in all the world.
You have beennurtured in ease, in peace, and happiness.
Most happy the sacred city of the Meropes, which nurtured as prince of her youth the god-born new Love.
Let envy, pride, jealousy, vanity, be nurturedby the studies that engage the mind of a young lady, and who can rejoice at her intellectual progress?
At home she has probably been nurtured amid sincere hearts, and under the high standard of Christian action.
You talked of helping last night--and most kind it was of you to have and express the wish--but in what possible way could a delicately nurtured girl like you help?
And, meanwhile, what agonies of terror and despair would not that highly strung and gently nurtured girl be suffering!
The next generation must be born with healthy bodies, must be nurtured in healthy physical and moral environments, and must be filled with ambition to give birth to a still healthier, still nobler generation.
The spirit of cooperation nurtured there will develop in the school through the more various opportunities of relationship to others.
It has also nurtured the sculptors, William Wetmore Story, who was also poet and essayist; Harriet Hosmer, whose career shows what a woman can accomplish in opening new opportunities for her sex; Larkin G.
It was in the doctrine and the spirit of the early Unitarianism that Henry Longfellow was nurtured at church and at home," says his brother.
CREON Woman, who like a viper unperceived Didst harbor in my house and drain my blood, Two plagues I nurtured blindly, so it proved, To sap my throne.
Our Chinese brethren have their full share in the family feeling which for ages has been nurtured in their race.
His father had nurtured and trained, in him, a helpless slave.
He saw how expensive it was, going about with delicately nurtured women.
But firm and manful, with strength nurtured by the witness of his own conscience, and the conviction that true virtue is independent of reward, he maintains the citadel unconquered, refusing to open the portals even to Jahveh Himself.
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