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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...

Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life - Page 16
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 512 pages
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John Milton

Rex Warner - Poets, English - 1949 - 95 pages

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John Milton, Englishman

James Holly Hanford - England - 1949 - 272 pages

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John Milton, Englishman

James Holly Hanford - England - 1949 - 272 pages

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The Poetical Works

John Milton - 1954 - 625 pages

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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 392 pages

...and hear What from without comes oft'n to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd. 200 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; my self...

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