 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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 121by John Milton - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...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...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 :... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...discourse was not all as the prattle of other children : " When I wa« yet a child, no childish play To ine was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, bom to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore above my yean The law of God I read, and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III sorting with my present state compared 1 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...be public good; myself I thought Born to that end" — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which, brooded over the heart of Joanna in early... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1854 - 352 pages
...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...to learn and know, and thence to do What might be gen'ral good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things.... | |
 | John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...and hear What from without comes oft'n to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd. 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, • 205 All righteous... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...it sweet; Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To such perfection that, ere yet my age Had measured twice six years, at our great Feast I went into... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 pages
...Legouis and Cazamian, History of English Literature, tr. Irvine, p. 376; Tillyard, Milton, pp. 305-6. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1821 - 422 pages
...always well directed, and it may be said of him, in that Miltoaic language which he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn, and know, and thence to do, What might be public good ; himself he thought Born to that end, born, to promote all truth, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...emerge from pebbles and whatnots, the array of playthings. The fact that Christ petulantly claims, "When I was yet a child, no childish play / To me...pleasing, all my mind was set / Serious to learn and know" (1.201-203) alerts us to the possibility that our author associated danger with the learning that is... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...often to my ears, III sorting with my present Slate compared. When I was yet a child, no childish flay To me was pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publickgood; my self I thought Born to Wat end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore... | |
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