 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...were remarkably serious boys. Milton has preserved for us, in solemn 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 What might be public good, myself... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III anting with my present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to Icam and know, and thence to do, What might be public good; myself I... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...treasure for future labours. He mentions the thoughtful character of his mind in Paradise Regained : — " 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... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1837 - 500 pages
...with our safe and speedy preparation for a better and more enduring inheritance. CHAPTER XVI. VVhrn 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 gen'ral good t myself... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - English fiction - 1837 - 488 pages
...consistent with our safe and speedy preparation for a better and more enduring inheritance. CHAPTER XVI. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleading ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be gen'ral good... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...but to the forest sped. His highest authority, however, is Milton, who says of himself, • When 1 was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing."...as to their powers. If, In the Instances which Mr. D1 Israeli adduces, an indisposition to bodily exertion was manifested, as many others may be cited... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...inexpreshe 9th of December is the anniversary of Г Milton's birthday : why should it not be kept ? " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn ana know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...mercy. This monarch gave several other proofs of his courage at an early age. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pteasing-, all my mind was set Berioim to learn and know, and thence to do, What might he public good... | |
 | William Turner - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1840 - 444 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, Illsorting with 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 What might he public good, myself... | |
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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... 
