 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - Communion sermons - 1860 - 224 pages
...in meditation. " 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." " Victorious deeds Flamed in my heart,... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 pages
...sin ad libitum. "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." These are the lines of Milton. Sometimes, however, the vernal ray quickens the blossom into unseasonable... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...state compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To rne 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... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 454 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" — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which brooded... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...compared ! 2OO " 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,... | |
 | John Kirk - 1864 - 448 pages
..." — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Seriously to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good." From the moment of his birth, his parents, in solemn vows and prayers, had consecrated him to the Lord... | |
 | 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, above... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 320 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 ' — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which Brooded... | |
 | 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." He seems to... | |
 | 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 : therefore,... | |
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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... 
