 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 520 pages
...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 - Messiah - 1859 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Communion sermons - 1860 - 224 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...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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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... 
