It was a nobler cause than theirs.

When a dog assumes the cozy habits of the cat without laying off his nobler nature, he is my friend.

My prayer for you is that you may receive from Christ not only the watchword of this nobler life, but also the power to fulfil it.

This makes poetry a nobler form, for verse is "a manner of utterance more eloquent and rethorical then the ordinarie prose, because it is decked and set out with all manner of fresh colours and figures, which maketh that it sooner invegleth the judgment of man."

The totality of these nobler impulses is called fortitudo (fortitude), and a distinction is made among them between animositas (vigor of soul) and generositas (magnanimity, noble-mindedness), according as rational desire is directed to the preservation of our own being or to aiding our fellow-men.

This proved him to be a man of a noble spirit and a disinterested mind, and, I say, worthy our strictest imitation; for to what nobler purpose can we dedicate our time than in endeavoring to build up the broken places which are made in the walls of our Zion?

Mr. Leslie Stephen, in a review of Hawthorne, has commented on the extent to which the nobler qualities and conquering energy of the English character are hidden, not only from foreigners, but from ourselves, by the "detestable lay figure" of John Bull.

Life has a higher, nobler aim, A destiny beyond earth's toys; A richer heritage we claim, A title to celestial joys.

Is there to be no other era, where man himself, like the sauruses, like the mastodon, shall have passed away, to be succeeded by some nobler animal structure, some loftier intelligence, some more cunning invention of the infinite mind?

Had Stella's gentle touches mov'd the lyre, Soon had the monarch felt a nobler fire; No more delighted with destructive war, Ambitious only now to please the fair, Resign'd his thirst of empire to her charms, And found a thousand worlds in Stella's arms.

Do you not see that this man's mind is full of higher, nobler thoughts than that of the proud man?

In all of them, the individual had been submerged in group formations, and the effect upon the character of man has been destructive of his nobler self.

Let us accept the bitter burden and meet the supreme test, giving time, money, service, life and those we love better than life, for the sake of the safer, freer, nobler world that is to be.

A nobler feeling, too, moves them.

Wordsworth had this feeling when he defined the poets as those: "Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.

I have never been able to satisfy myself in what the resemblance consists, but from the first reading it has always appeared to me that there was some elegant similarity between the characters of Sardanapalus and Hamlet, and my inclination has sometimes led me to imagine that the former was the nobler conception of the two.

There is no nobler record in the world: from Chaucer down to the moderns is one splendid sequence of character-revelations through a perfect but varied art, for literature is also a fine art, and one of the greatest of all.

When we for age could neither read nor write, The subject made us able to indite: The soul with nobler resolutions decked, The body stooping, does herself erect: No mortal parts are requisite to raise Her that unbodied can her Maker praise.

And painted ducks, too, the splendid wood-duck among the rest, often come to sail and float amid the painted leaves,barks of a nobler model still!

Her heart for a moment never failed; But when they reached Salerno's gate, The Prince's nobler self prevailed, And saved her for a nobler fate,

It is also worth observing that the fragmentary poem of Shelley named Prince Athanase, written in 1817, was at first named Pandemos and Urania; and was intended, as Mrs. Shelley informs us, to embody the contrast between 'the earthly and unworthy Venus,' and the nobler ideal of love, the heaven-born or heaven-sent Venus.

Clive shows that portrait of their grandfather to his children, and tells them that the whole world never saw a nobler gentleman.

He nursed the elements of couragehe Supplied the aliment that feeds and guides The daring spirit to its high emprise A nation's moral energies, by him Directed, found a nobler end and aim.

The sun flatters our own little world with the illusion of a transitory importance; the stars show it its place in the universe, and teach it a nobler meaning for itself.

Wordsworth had this feeling when he defined the poets as those: "Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.