 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 ページ
...youth ;* as were HOBBES 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...end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable that this love of repose and musing is retained throughout life. A man of fine genius... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 ページ
...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...to do What might be public good: myself I thought Bom to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous things." Writing in 1641, while his father... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 532 ページ
...youth ;* as were HOBBES 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...and know, and thence to do What might be public good : mjself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 ページ
...recollections of himself as a child: — " When I was yet a child, no childish piny To me was pleasing; ull my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence...be public good: myself I thought Born to that end, 1югп to promote all truth And righteous things." Writing in ICH, while his father was still alive,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 ページ
...the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself as a child : — " When I was vet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all...Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might bo public good : myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth And righteous tilings."... | |
 | John Pye Smith - 1859 - 576 ページ
...Besides such notable instances, his influence must have been widely and deeply felt, for — All his mind was set, Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good. In " serving his own generation by the will of God," he became, as Bacon phrases it, " a servant of... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1860 - 224 ページ
...exertion. Thus does the great English poet describe him, as communing with himself in meditation. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth." " Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart, heroic acts ; one while To rescue Israel from the Roman yoke,... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1860 - 224 ページ
...exertion. Thus does the great English poet describe him, as communing with himself in meditation. " 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." " Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart, heroic acts ; one... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 ページ
...unfavourable circumstances, " conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity ;" moulded in utero to sin ad libitum. "When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...know, and thence to do What might be public good." These are the lines of Milton. Sometimes, however, the vernal ray quickens the blossom into unseasonable... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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...Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might he puhlic good; myself I thought Born to that end, horn to promote all truth, All righteous things:... | |
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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. 
