The Trueborn Englishman concludes thus: Could but our ancestors retrieve their fate, And see their offspring thus degenerate; How we contend for birth and names unknown, And build on their past actions, not our own; They'd cancel records, and their tombs deface, And openly disown the vile degenerate race.

Lionardo was at this time thirty, and was the sole hope of the family, since Michelangelo and his two surviving brothers had no expectation of offspring.

Now the one tender trait of this violent woman was intense love for her offspring; but it was a love that, far from softening her manner toward others, partook, on the contrary, of the fierceness of her general character, and became, like that of a wild animal for its young, a source of constant apprehension to those whose duty compelled them to approach its object.

Long I owe a song, my Brother, to thy dear and deathless claim; Long I've paused before thy ashes, in my poverty and shame: Something stirs me now from silence, with a fixed and awful breath; 'Tis the offspring of thy genius, that was parent to thy death.

As far as the eye can reach, both up and down the river, the banks are thickly shaded with groves of dates, displacing, it should seem, the other species of trees, from which Isaiah names this scene "the Brook or Valley of Willows," although the humble races of that graceful tribe, in the osier, &c. are yet the prolific offspring of its shores.

They seem likewise to have believed with equal confidence, that no father could be cruel to his child; and therefore they allowed every man the supreme judicature in his own house, and put the lives of his offspring into his hands.

There were exceptions, but one might cite on the opposite side innumerable cases where, despite the most open adultery, the husband has taken his wife's offspring for his own.

One must look, as in the case of taboos, deeper than the surface for the beginning of this custom of trading babies, for that is what it often amounted tofriends exchanging offspring as they might canoes.

These were sworn not to have any offspring.

The himene was the offspring of the original efforts of the Polynesians to adapt the songs of the sailormen, the national airs of the adventurers of many countries, the rollicking obscenities and drinking doggerel of the navies, and the religious hymns drilled into their ears by the missionaries, English and French.

my child!You will notcannotdare not, rob a long-stricken and bereaved mother of her offspring.

A mother bows herself to the dust before you, to ask mercy for her offspring.

what troubles you?" "HenryGertrude," answered the venerable parent extending her arms to her offspring, as if she asked support; "my children, your doors have been opened to one who has a claim to enter them.

And he gave it back to me, with his blessing, saying: Obtain an incomparably beautiful offspring!

Thou shalt indeed obtain offspring, but only of the female sex.

It held all three of her female offspring.

When one of my mowers first told me that he had observed the fact, I was somewhat disinclined to credit it; but I have since ascertained it beyond a doubt, and now mention it as another strong proof of that order in the economy of Nature, by means of which this affectionate bird is enabled to secure its forthcoming offspring.

I am the offspring of Truth and Love, and the parent of Benevolence, Hope, and Joy.

The first part of Dryden's poem is written upon this soothing plan; the Panther, or Church of England, is "sure the noblest next the Hind, And fairest offspring of the spotted kind.

In oblique profile the Wilbur twin could glance across the fronts in turn of Harvey D. Whipple, of Gideon Whipple, his father; of Sharon Whipple, his uncle; and of Juliana Whipple, sole offspring of Sharon.

And I prove it thus: it is not incredible to natural reason that God made the world, and all the creatures in it; that mankind is His offspring; and that He gives us life and breath, and all things.

But viewed in a common-sense way it is the duty of a woman to reflect on the consequences of conceiving children from such a man; and the researches of physicians will furnish her with incontrovertible facts regarding the impaired health of the offspring of such a union.

As Hercules contended in vain against Antæus, the Son of Earth,so long as the Earth gave her giant offspring new strength in every fall,so the soul contends in vain with evilthe natural earth-born enemy, while the very contact of the earth invigorates the enemy for the struggle.

And as Antæus was slain at last, when Hercules lifted him from the earth and strangled him while raised aloft, so can the soul slay the enemy (the desire, the passion, the evil, the earth's offspring), when bearing it from earth itself and stifling it in the higher air.

The pastourelle has sometimes been described as a popular form, but it would be difficult to determine wherein its 'popularity,' in the sense intended, consists, for it is easily recognized as the offspring of a knightly minstrelsy, and indeed is scarcely less artificial or conventional than the Italian eclogue.