And always keep a hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Jim'.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

-Burke, Edmund
  Reflections on the Revolution in France.

By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they so were bred. The priest continues what the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.389^92.

Andthesunsankagainonthegrand Australianbushöthe nurseandtutorofeccentric minds, thehome oftheweird, and of much that is different from things in other lands.

-Lawson, Henry Hertzberg
  'The Bush Undertaker', first published in The Antipodean.

Why haven't Igot a real'home'öa real lifeöwhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlöI'm a woman. I want things†all this love and joy that fights for outletöand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.

-Beauchamp
  Letter to  John Middleton Murry, 23 Mar.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.

-Milton,John
  Comus,  A Mask, l.372^83.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be thanthisö'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.It would not do for a policeman.

-Nightingale, Florence
  Notes on Nursing.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood. Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 6, stanza 2.

Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee^ Like summer tempest came her tears^ 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.'

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.6, added song, stanza 4.

The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind Hath fouled me.

-Tennyson
Idylls of the King,'The LastTournment', l.317^18.