 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Pagina 148door Samuel Johnson - 1779Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pagina’s
...state compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be publick good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things :... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pagina’s
...present state compared 1 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end" — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which, brooded... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 pagina’s
...state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things : therefore, above... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pagina’s
...present state compared! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing: all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore, above... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 520 pagina’s
...his school-life — When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good: mjself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1859 - 576 pagina’s
...notable instances, his influence must have been widely and deeply felt, for — All his mind was set, Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good. In " serving his own generation by the will of God," he became, as Bacon phrases it, " a servant of... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pagina’s
...as a child : — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good: myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things." Writing in 1641,... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1860 - 224 pagina’s
...in meditation. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth." " Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart,... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pagina’s
...sin ad libitum. "When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good." These are the lines of Milton. Sometimes, however, the vernal ray quickens the blossom into unseasonable... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pagina’s
...state compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To rne was pleasing : all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public' good : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore above... | |
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