 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 Monthly Review - 90. oldal1833Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Relly Beard - 1849 - 328 oldal
...his state of mind. He represents Jesus, when about to commence his public ministry, as thus speaking: 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... | |
 | Robert Wallace - 1850 - 660 oldal
...Milton " lias finely touched the early dawn of our Lord's great character," in the following soliloquy. 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 he puhlic good; myself I... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 oldal
...squabbling imps, but to the forest sped. His highest authority, however, Is Milton, who says of himself, " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Such general rules, however, are as little applicable to the dispositions of men of genius as to their... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1851 - 308 oldal
...Him by the hand towards this fountain, His discourse was not all as the prattle of other children: " 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... | |
 | James Elmes - 1852 - 472 oldal
...own description of his school life, and wonder not at the mighty soarings of his full -plumed wing. 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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 oldal
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, Ill sorting with my present state compar'd ! nt, ; all my mind was set Serious to leam and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 380 oldal
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 oldal
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, I11 sorting with my present 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 oldal
...hear " What from without comes often to my ears, " 1ll sorting with my present state compared ! 200 " When I was yet a child, no childish play " To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set " Serious to learn and know,3 and thence to do, " What might be public good :... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1854 - 352 oldal
...consistent with our safe and speedy preparation for a better and more enduring inheritence. CHAPTER XVI. 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 gen'ral good ; myself... | |
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