In his youth he, with his brothers, had been obliged to flee to Scotland, where, during his exile, Oswald was converted to Christianity by the teachers of Iona.
From his earliest youth he was thoughtful and pious, and watched and imitated in his mode of life the monks of Melrose.
For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youthto fortune and to fame unknown: Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own.
Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.
In youth it sheltered me, And I 'll protect it now.
The aspiring youththat fired the Ephesian dome Outlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.
But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain, And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!
Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy!
Therefore, it is needful that the youthshould have some means of losing that corrupt speech, and of relearning that of their parents, so that they may afterward be able to shine in public without shame.
His youth was largely spent in the Italian wars, and his later years in the South Sea.
He was a tall gaunt man who had spent his youth bringing rafts of timber down the Wabash river, from Fort Wayne to Maumee, in Ohio.
As with life itself, nothing but the magic powers of youth and ignorance could have cajoled us to face it with heedless confidence and eager zest.
If we but knew that love is only a matter of course so long as youth and its bounteous train is ours, we might perhaps make the most of it, and give up looking for - something better.
But the unfortunate being cursed in youth with the means of idleness, yet without genius, without talents even, is terribly handicapped and perplexed.
University, Heaven forbid that any youth should be corrupted by my confession!
Thus old Romano bow'd to Raphael's fame, And scholar to the youthhe taught became.
Thebes did his green, unknowing youth engage; He chooses Athens in his riper age.
His youth and age, his life and death, combine, As in some great and regular design, All of a piece throughout, and all divine.
Beauty and youthmore than a god command; No Jove could e'er the force of these withstand.
Every grace his youth adorning, Glorious as the star of morning, Or the planet of the year.
Thus hearten'd well, and flesh'd upon his prey, The youthmay prove a man another day.
The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover; Oh, so true, so kind was he!
All this in blooming youth you have achieved: Nor are your foil'd contemporaries grieved.
Youth will quickly pass, more quickly than you think, and the subsequent period of life will last much longer, hence, in all justice to yourself, let its preparation absorb your attention.
How many women find themselves disarmed and powerless in important circumstances of life, for having neglected in youth the training of the heart's affections!
If you remain a child to your mother you will preserve your youth through the toilsome days of life to a ripe old age, an advantage so precious that nothing should be left undone to secure it.
Youth is like a fairy whose magical wand evokes the most graceful images and the most alluring phantoms.
In her youth she never pandered to flattery, now, old, she shall not experience ingratitude.
And while the companions of her youth languish and fret in their sad isolation, she, always the same, sees herself surrounded by a multitude, anxious to profit by her experience.
The age of youth is the age of illusions, ardent desires, and fanciful hopes.
The bloom of youth will soon fade away, leaving to her only confused souvenirs of those days when, to be happy, it sufficed for her to descend into her own soul, where she always found peace and consolation.
This is true of youth in general, but more particularly so of young ladies.
The youth educated with him, attended him in all his campaigns.
In France, Italy, and Germany journalism is a career in which an eloquent and cultured youth may honourably win his spurs.
He was thirty-six and Lord Alfred Douglas a handsome, slim youth of twenty-one, with large blue eyes and golden-fair hair.
Oscar was said to have written extraordinary letters to Lord Alfred Douglas: a youthcalled Alfred Wood had stolen the letters from Lord Alfred Douglas' rooms in Oxford and had tried to blackmail Oscar with them.
Still he had the surface good nature and good humour of healthy youth and was generally liked.
Before he had listened long, I have been told, the youth declared his admiration passionately.
In answer to his questions Oscar stated that Shelley was a youth in the employ of Mathews and Lane, the publishers.
After dinner I noticed that the youth was angry with Oscar and would scarcely speak to him, and that Oscar was making up to him.
The Treasury put a youth called Atkins in the box, thus declaring him to be at least a credible witness; but Atkins was proved by Sir Edward Clarke to have perjured himself in the court in the most barefaced way.
Pathetic" for it is boldly ingenuous as youth itself with a touch of youthful conceit and exaggeration.
Mr. Wilde had told them that there was something beautiful and charming about youthwhich led him to make these acquaintances.
All the while Oscar was standing apart from the rest of us with an arm on the young man's shoulder; but his coaxing was in vain, the youth turned away with petulant, sullen ill-temper.
The exceptions were a boy named Mavor and a youth named Shelley.
Oscar had reached originality of thought and possessed the culture of scholarship, while Alfred Douglas had youth and rank and beauty, besides being as articulate as a woman with an unsurpassable gift of expression.
Francia learned the first principles of art in his youth by living for some months with Mariotto Albertinelli.
He delighted in composing sonnets and improvising songs, and in his early youth he gave his attention to arms.
Seriously, from earlyyouth I have taken an especial interest in the subject of poultry-raising, and so this membership touches a ready sympathy in my breast.
The Secretary of the Navy said: "I recognize this youth as the person who has been interfering with my business time and again during the week.
The youth of both sexes ceased to paw the earth for worms, and old roosters that came to crow, "remained to pray," when I passed by.
There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago.
Sleep has overcome the youth of the chase: He slumbers on the heath, and his dog at his knee.
But fare ye well, ye loving pair, We leave ye to each other's care; And blithely let your hours be sped In joys of youth and lustyhed!
Straight from the horrid siege th' invader flown trusteth the word and honour of the Knight, Egas Moniz: But now the noble breast of the brave Youth disdaineth strange behest.
The wind overtook the waves and we overtook the wind, so that we straightway left the Land of Youth behind; and we passed by many islands and cities till at length we landed on the green shores of Erin.
He had gone but a few paces into the wood when he saw a mare tied to an oak, and tied to another, and stripped from the waist upwards, a youth of about fifteen years of age, from whom the cries came.
Irritated by the intrigues employed by his enemies to mar his prospects, the impetuous youth commits imprudent acts which lead to his banishment from the city in 1546.
We must arm him against the misfortunes of youth before he has reached them.
He passed much of his youth in America, and was British embassador at Washington, to settle the Maine boundary in 1842.
He was born in Connecticut and had a good elementary education; but in hisyouth acquired vicious habits which however he overcame at about the age of 14.
He was of Scotch descent, and from early youth a mathematician.
From an abandoned youth he became a respectable preacher; the authorship of Pilgrim's Progress will perpetuate his memory.
Though blind from his youth he was a vigorous writer, and an efficient magistrate.
It was on the night of this very day that the celebrated temple of Diana was burnt to the ground by Eratostratus, an Ephesian youth who fondly panted for an infamous reputation.
He was born 1636, and in early youth gave indications of the future bent of his genius, by his fondness for the great poets of antiquity.
He was the third of a line of illustrious printers, celebrated for the elegance and correctness of their editions, and in his youth bid fair to excel his predecessors.
His father was a common laborer, and his early years were those of a talented youth struggling with poverty and other difficulties.
Krause, the author, says, that Andrea occupied his time from early youth with the plan of a secret society for the improvement of mankind.
He said that among the things that I might learn from him, were the priceless secret of compounding the Elixir of Life, the drinking of which, by mortals, would confer perpetual youth and surprising beauty.
This youth heard of the singular state of things, learned the conditions, and got the riddle by heart.
In order to study more at his ease, the youth was in the habit of retiring to a grotto behind the palace, and there repeating to himself the riddle and all sorts of possible responses thereto.
In the first case beauty and youth accompany age; but in the second, age is apparent all along the centuries.
Surely a youth like you cannot hope for success where they have failed?
This youth was apparently gifted to look beyond the veil, and into the dim regions of the dead; and it seemed that this was known, for presently people flocked about him, and the scene closed.
It was a barber's shop, and a light, happy-hearted youth was therein pursuing his avocation, and earning bread and health.
Why even he himself was better off; if he had the Under-Sheriff on one side, he had youth and beauty on the other.
It was not the moment, even if he had been the man, for a measured sobriety of anticipation; it was one of those rare and rich hours of youth when everything seems possible and no man's lot is to be envied.
He saw that she was falling into a doze--perhaps with a vision of her own youth before her eyes.
The more ardently youth gives one hand to hope, the more fiercely despair clutches the other.
One affectionate look from him, one fond word, would solace every pain, and make me wait the arrival of his father's letter with all the sanguine anticipations of youth and love.
He watched nearly an hour in vain for the appearance of Lady Albina, whose youth and elegance, he thought, would unequivocally distinguish her from the rest of the earl's household.
But then Sobieski was all frankness and animation; his cheek bloomed with the rich coloring of youth and happiness; his eyes flashed pleasure, and his lips were decked with smiles.
I embrace in you the last of those Polish youth who were so lately the brightest jewels in my crown.
Amongst the gallant youths brought up in such a school of public virtue was Thaddeus Kosciusko and the young Timotheus Niemcivitz, his friend from youth to age.
Every trial of spirit which could have tortured youth or manhood has been endured by him with the firmness of a hero.
God, perform what he believed to be his commission to the last powers of his youth and health.
Man's ambition and baseness," said the king, "are monstrous to the contemplation of youth only.
The youth blushed, and, bowing, presented his sword, which was received and as directly returned.
The old household servants blessed him as he passed through the hall, and in a few minutes he found himself seated in the family post-chaise and four that was to convey him from the home of his youth and happy innocence, and, alas!
Hope and all the hilarities of youth flushed in his soul; his features continually glowed with animation, whilst the gay beaming of his eyes ever answered to the smile on his lips.
It appeared that Sir Robert Somerset had long cherished a hatred to the Poles, in consequence of some injury he affirmed he had received in early youth from one of that nation.
Thrilling with that delight with which youth beholds wonders, and anticipates more, he stopped with the rest of the party before a tent, which General Butzou informed him belonged to the commander-in-chief.
A youth named Norodom, a son of the Cambodian King, had some time since been brought to Bangkok and reared at the Siamese Court.
With the terrible clearness of vision of those who are about to die, she suddenly realizes that her childhood and youth have been sacrificed to a vast self-love.
It pleased her thus to live all her youthover again.
At that moment she fancied that she could see up yonder little Chebe's ragged person, and in the frame made by that poor window, her whole child life, her deplorable youth as a Parisian street arab, passed before her eyes.
Claire was at that healthy and delightful period of youth when the mind, only partly open, clings to the things it knows with blind confidence, in complete ignorance of treachery and falsehood.
In his eyes, the honor and fair fame of the old house he had served since his youth were at stake.
The unfortunate youth felt that the old passion was despotically taking possession of his heart once more, and that at that moment glances, words, everything that burst forth from it would be love.
And Sidonie, overcome with fatigue, made no reply, but fell asleep standing, beginning a lovely dream which was to last throughout her youth and cost her many tears.
At a distance Claire fancied that the home of her youth wore a surly, depressed air.
However, he now expresses his concern for the loss of this youth in a most extravagant manner.
I attended likewise in my youth the senate, but a senate shrinking and speechless; where it was dangerous to utter one's opinion, and mean and pitiable to be silent.
For it is not my youth or person, which time gradually impairs; it is my honour and glory that she cares for.
Upon this principle it was that the youth were sent early into the army, that by being taught to obey they might learn to command, and, whilst they followed others, might be trained by degrees to become leaders themselves.
The father of each youth was his instructor upon these occasions, or if he had none, some person of years and dignity supplied the place of a father.
He is a youth of great merit and indefatigable application, and in every respect well worthy of so excellent a father.
But imprecations of this sort are as common with Regulus as they are impious; and he continually devotes that unhappy youth to the curse of those gods whose vengeance his own frauds every day provoke.
I have grown old and see each year how the youth and the beauty of women come to pass anew.
The summer flowers of my youth bloom in my garden and in the gardens of my neighbours.
It is my youth that has brought me in old age back to my tiny schoolroom.
SONG I’ve pleasure not a little A dancing youth to see, Nor less—one single tittle— An old man full of glee.
She led for three years the King’s steeds to the brook, For else than a youth no one Ingeborg took.
Down flew the lovely little bird, Alighting on the sand; The loveliest damsel she became, And gave the youth her hand.
It was served by a Wakamba youth we had nicknamed Herbert Spencer, on account of his gigantic intellect.
From early youth the lobes have been stretched, until at last they have become like two long elastic loops, hanging down upon the shoulder, and capable of accommodating anything up to and including a tomato can.
He proved to be a very short, thick-set, blond German youthwho justified Weber and Fields.
Shortly we made the acquaintance of the South Africander who furnished us our ox teams and wagon; and of a lank, drawling youth who was to be our "rider.
A copper bronze youth accompanied him, lithe as a leopard.
On his examination, the youth evinced the coolness of a fanatic.
