 | Edward Jesse - 1847 - 430 ページ
...Joshua Reynolds's picture of Mrs. Siddons as the Queen of Tragedy. D2 HORTON CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to iearn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end ; born... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 ページ
...always well directed, and it may be said of him, in that Milto»ic 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 horn, to promote all truth, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 ページ
...might give him such help and comfort as God should approve. 160 THE BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF JOHN MILTON. "When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to do What might be public good : myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things." — Paradiie Regained. THE great... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 ページ
...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...to do. What might be public good; myself I thought Boru to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore, above my years, The law... | |
 | Robert Wallace - 1850 - 660 ページ
...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...Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he puhlic good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things:... | |
 | Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1851 - 308 ページ
...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...read, and found it sweet, Made it my whole delight." Happy Mary ! Blessed mother of a more blessed Son! And happy are we, as pilgrims, to behold His abiding... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 ページ
...all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my felf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth,...above my years, The Law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfection, that e're yet my age Had meafur'd... | |
 | John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 ページ
...all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my felf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth,...above my years, The Law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfection, that e're yet my age Had meafur'd... | |
 | James Elmes - 1852 - 472 ページ
...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...end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. His L' Allegro and II Penseroso, his Comus and his Lycidas, works of highest fame, are early productions.... | |
 | 1852 - 874 ページ
...while I consider What from within I feel myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, Ill tre have it not to give. To build, to plant, leam and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought Bom to that end, born... | |
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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. 
