Example sentences of "child be father " in BNC.
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| 1 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 2 | ‘ The child is father to the man ’ said one of the tenders of cradles in a pause in his song . |
| 3 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |
| 4 | They say the child is father to the man ; yet looking back , across those immensities , those aeons , separating myself now from myself then , I can see almost nothing that I owe to him , almost nothing we have in common . |
| 5 | The Child Is Father of the Man |
| 6 | The Child is father of the Man : |
| 7 | In the light of this passage we can interpret one of Wordsworth 's gnomic sayings — ‘ The Child is Father of the Man ’ — and can understand what the attractive childhood episodes are doing in Books i and ii ; they are now seen to be similar ‘ spots of time … enshrined … for future restoration ’ . |
| 8 | This is a complete reversal of Wordsworth 's former teaching — that the Child is Father of the Man , and that in this world ‘ we find our happiness ’ ( Prelude 1805 , x , 728 ) . |
| 9 | It is contained in the old aphorism ‘ the child is father to the man ’ , and expresses the belief that a child 's experiences in the early years will leave a mark on him for the rest of his life . |
| 10 | Freud 's hypotheses are not upheld : if the child is father to the man it is for reasons other than missing out on the breast and a too early acquaintance with the potty . |
| 11 | The child is father of the man . |