 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...little distance of the wilderness, being only a very few miles from the Dead Sea. DUNSTER. Ver. 201. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ;] • How finely and consistently, as Mr. Thyer observes, does Milton here imagine the youthful meditations... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to myears, 111 sorting with my 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 he puhlic good : myself... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1830 - 488 pages
...the ruder parts of his nature at home, the little world of school afforded a vent for his affections, His highest authority, however, is Milton, who says...exertion was manifested, as many others may be cited in n hich the directly opposite propensity was remarkable. In war, the most turbulent of exercises, ЖзсЬуЫз,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 pages
...substitute for the ties of home* His highest authority, however, is Milton, who says of him«elf, " \Vhen I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing*" Such general rules, however, are iis little applicable to the itispoMiions of men of genius as to their powers. II, in the instances... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 504 pages
...to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps, but to the forest sped. His highest anthority, however, is Milton, who says of himself, When I was...as to their powers. If, in the instances which Mr D'lsraeli adduces, an indispos1tion to bodily exertion was manifested, as many others may be cited... | |
 | Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...hand. Gray and Huet were averse to play in their childhood. Milton says, in " Paradise Regained,"— " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Bossuet was so much averse to the usual sports of his schoolfellows, that the more witty boys punned... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...hand. Gray and Huet were averse to play in their childhood. Milton says, in " Paradise Regained," — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Bossuet was so much averse to the usual sports of his schoolfellows, that the more witty boys punned... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! aoo 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 ; my self... | |
 | John Galt - 1834 - 370 pages
... LITERARY LIFE, .. , ANll MISCELLANIES, JOHN gALT. 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. MILTON.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1835 - 382 pages
...whom I treated rebelliously, and have been sorry ever since. Dr. Drury, whom I plagued sufficiently " Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled, Nor...as to their powers. If, in the instances which Mr. D' Israeli adduces, an indisposition to bodily exertion was manifested, as many others may be cited... | |
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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... 
