 | James Elmes - Architects - 1852 - 472 pages
...full -plumed wing. 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. His L' Allegro... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1850 - 790 pages
...other children : " When I wa« yet a child, no childish play To ine 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, bom to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore above... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...state compar'd ! 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 publick good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things :... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...state compar'd ! 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 publick good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things :... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 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" — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which, brooded... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 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: therefore, above... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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 : therefore, above... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 520 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: mjself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Messiah - 1859 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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 thence 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,... | |
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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... 
