...were really written by the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself 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 theuce to do, What might be public good ; myself...

...youth ;* as were HOHBES and BACON. MILTON has preserved for us, in solemn numbers, 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 : myself...

...childhood, at all events, the lines well describe his own youth, when he says, in the first book of Paradise Regained — " 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...

...childhood, at all events, the lines well describe his own youth, when he says, in the first book of Paradise Regained— " 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...

...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd. 200 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...

...greatness." Let us not forget that Milton puts these words into the mouth of his Divine Speaker in the " Paradise Regained " : 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...

...high reputation. The first engraver of the work inscribed under the portrait the following lines from Paradise Regained : — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleating ; all my mind was set * "Matre probatlssim& et eleemosynia per vicinlam potissimbm nota."...

...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III sorting with my 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...

...headaches, until midnight and even later. His John the Baptist, a character resembling himself, suys: ' 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, ^Vhat might be public good ; myself...

...headaches, until midnight and even later. His John the Baptist, a character resembling himself, says: ' 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...