 | John Milton - 1713 - 454 pages
...ftare compar'd. 300 When I was yer a Child, no childiflt play To me was preafing, all my mind was fer Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my felf I thought Born to thar end, born to promore all ttuth, 105 All righreous things... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...with my prefent ftate compar'd ! zoo When When I was yet a child, no childim play To me was pleafmg ; all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, z05 All righteous things : therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...my earsr 111 forting with my prefent ftate compar'd ! 200 When I was yet a child, no childifh play To me was pleafing; all my mind was fet Serious to...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1769 - 314 pages
...curious account of him. POETS, JOHN MILTON, (JEtatio.) « When I was yet a child, no childifh play " To me was pleafing; all my mind was fet " Serious...know, and thence to do " What might be public good ; rnyfelf I thought, .• The engraver was perhaps miftaken in the name, of which I have known feral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 890 pages
...forting with my prefent ftate compar'dl too When I was yet a child, no childim play To me was pleallng; all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things i therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 262 pages
...compar'dl »oo When I was yet a child, no childifh play To me was pleafmg \ all my mind was fet _ j Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 262 pages
...compar'd ! zoo When I was yet a child, no chilJifh play To me was pleafmg; all my mind was fet L ) Serious Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 105 All righteous things : therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made... | |
 | David Simpson - 1780 - 628 pages
...Virtue of our Birth, A never fading Crown. HYMN CCCXXXJV. \XT'HEN I was yet a child, no childifh. play To me was pleafing; all my mind was fet Serious to...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things; therefore above my year* The law of God I read, and found it fweet - Made Made... | |
 | John Milton - 1784 - 278 pages
...was pleafing ; all my mind was fet Serious to Team and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; myfelf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things : therefore above my years> The law of God I read, and found- it fweet, Made it... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 360 pages
...Thyer. He feems to allude to Callimachus, who fays elegantly of young Jupiter, Hymn, in Jov. 56. :. To me was pleafing ; all my mind was fet Serious to...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it... | |
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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... 
