 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...present 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 - 380 pages
...present 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, bora to promote all truth, All righteous things :... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 360 pages
...my 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...be public good; myself I thought Born to that end" — he will have some notion of the vast reveries which, brooded over the heart of Joanna in early... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...a child, no childish play " To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set " Serious to learn and know,3 and thence to do, " What might be public good : myself I thought " Born to that end — born to promote all truth,4 205 " All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, " The law of... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 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...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things : therefore, above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...my 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...be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore, above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing;1 all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might he public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth/ All righteous things... | |
 | 1858 - 374 pages
...pleasing ; all my mind was set Si i.in to le.irn irod know, und thence to do, What might be puMic jjood ; myself I thought Born to that end, horn to promote all truth, All right' ous things j tbercfurc, nhove my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet. Made it my... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 490 pages
...numbers, 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...be public good: myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. It is remarkable that this love of repose and musing... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...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 to do...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,... | |
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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... 
