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?

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

" "Not so, messire," sighed the rueful knight, "for when I chance to meet a gentle youth, young and well beseenas thou, bedight in goodly mail as thou, with knightly sword on thigh, why then, messire, 'tis ever my wont to declare unto him that she I honour is fairer, nobler, and altogether more worthy and virtuous than any other she soever, and to maintain that same against him, on horse or afoot, with lance, battle-axe or sword.

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!

but they interest me more than the Maples, they are so widely and equally dispersed throughout the forest; they are so hardy, a nobler tree on the whole;our chief November flower, abiding the approach of winter with us, imparting warmth to early November prospects.

It resembles that of Covent-Garden, but seems to be nobler and greater; and yet I am not sure if, in point of dimensions, it is larger, or so large as that of Covent-Garden.

" What could be nobler and more sensible than that!

Ah, no! far happier, nobler was his fate!

In a higher sphere of action than was his at Dresden, in the nobler world revealed to him at Rome, he remained the same.

It had, perhaps, been learned at a mother's knee, or in a Sunday-school, and may have been (indeed it was), the means of saving these gamblers, and of aiding others through their influence toward that nobler life which alone is worth the living.

Of ancient race by birth, but nobler yet

Yet what they are, even these crude thoughts were bred By reading that which better thou hast read, Thy matchless author's work: which thou, my friend, By well translating better dost commend; Those youthful hours which, of thy equals most 230 In toys have squander'd, or in vice have lost, Those hours hast thou to nobler use employ'd; And the severe delights of truth enjoy'd.

Methinks in those who firm with me remain, It shows a nobler principle than gain.

He promised enthusiastically to do what he could to further our happiness; and this is the nobler in him, inasmuch as he admitted that he had himself conceived a tender admiration for you. FROM JULIE Dearest, the worst has happened.

If he seek to relieve his inanity in books, his literature ascends no higher than the romances, the newspapers, or the scandal, of the day; and all the nobler pursuits of mind, as well as body, are utterly lost in regard to him.

Raphael's, like Homer's, was the nobler part, But Titian's painting look'd like Virgil's art.

Though nature there her true resemblance bears, A nobler beauty in thy peace appears.

Our stage does human chance present to view, But ne'er before was seen so sadly true: You are changed too, and your pretence to see Is but a nobler name for charity.

"Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and for the exerting, of his nobler faculties.

Greely, Sir Henry Lefroy, referring to the persistence of purpose shown by his party in bringing back the pendulum apparatus, remarked that there was nothing nobler in the annals of scientific heroism than the determination of these hungry men to drag the cumbersome box along their weary way.

If the master passion of Pitt's mind was enthusiasm for his country, Fox was swayed by the still nobler enthusiasm of Humanity.

Kant's view that a divine law within, the living word of God, calls ever to us as personal beings to attain the perfection of our natures in the perfection of the race, and in conformity to the eternal law of righteousness, is far nobler and truer than that which George Eliot accepted.

She fancies I love her in a nobler way, therefore she appreciates, I dare not say loves, me more and more.

She replied, with sadness and compassion: "I know; you are so good, and all the nobler.

He thought rightly that there is no calling that offers nobler opportunities to a man who has a moral fiber able to bear the strain.