He built the fire, baked, washed, when his wife was ill.

The pent-up enthusiasm of his ambitious life burst the barriers of his inhospitable surroundings until he blossomed out into America's greatest pulpit orator.
When Handel was a little boy he bought a clavichord, hid it in the attic, and went there at night to play upon it, muffling the strings with small pieces of fine woolen cloth so that the sounds should not wake the family.

Michael Angelo neglected school to copy drawings which he dared not carry home.

Murillo filled the margin of his school-book with drawings.

Dryden read Polybius before he was ten years old.