"Nonage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... order doth apply To the pranks of this remote age! We are sure alike to be thrust by, In our nonage, and our dotage. ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... purpose that I bade her leave us. Thekla, you are no more a child. Your heart Is no more in nonage: for you love, And boldness dwells with love—that you have proved Your nature moulds itself upon your father's More than your mother's spirit. Therefore may you Hear what were too much ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... in the life of the vine between the setting and the first vintage, the "tender nonage," and tells us that at this time the vines need careful rearing; so they do, now as then, American grapes as well as the grapes of ancient Rome. Fortunately, any departure from normal well-being is easily told in the grape, for the color of the leaf is as accurate ...
— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick
... which he was a member. This colony, though it was twice deserted, was in the end successful, and in it was born the first child, Virginia Dare by name, of that Anglo-Saxon race which has since conquered a continent, and surpassed, in the nonage of its republican sway, the maturity of ...
— Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 • Various |
