 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 347by John Milton, John Mitford - 1851Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 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, born to promote all truth, All righteous things : therefore,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1866 - 642 pages
...says of himself: 4 " When I was jet a child, DO 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."... | |
 | 1866 - 410 pages
...state compar'd ! sw 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, 206 All righteous things... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - Great Britain - 1866 - 328 pages
...boyhood : ' ' When I was yet a child, no childish play To me seemed 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 And righteous things."... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1867 - 494 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 : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...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 I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...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 thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things :... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...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 thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore,... | |
 | Literature - 1874 - 808 pages
...serene, happy face. " While yet I was a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : and 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 And righteous things." He... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 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 ;... | |
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