children (n.)
Society became my glittering bride,
And airy hopes my children.
Children and fooles cannot lye.
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?
Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Atossa, cursed with every granted prayer,
Childless with all her children, wants an heir;
To heirs unknown descends the unguarded store,
Or wanders heaven-directed to the poor.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Even children follow'd with endearing wile,
And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
Or if I would delight my private hours
With music or with poem, where so soon
As in our native language can I find
That solace?
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
Thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!
His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake.
Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.
Ah, there are no longer any children!
Men are but children of a larger growth.
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Birds in their little nests agree;
And 't is a shameful sight
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Books, the children of the brain.
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.
The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.
He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
I care not, Fortune, what you me deny:
You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace,
You cannot shut the windows of the sky
Through which Aurora shows her brightening face;
You cannot bar my constant feet to trace
The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve:
Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace,
And I their toys to the great children leave:
Of fancy, reason, virtue, naught can me bereave.
Wisdom is justified of her children.
Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
