The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.

-Hawthorne, Nathaniel
  The American Notebooks (published1868), ch.3.

Hail holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born. Bright effluence of bright essence increate.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.5^6.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. 583

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.750^2.

Above all I was determined to prove that the Australian novel is not necessarily the dreary, dun-coloured offspring of journalistic realism.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.