 | 1866 - 410 pages
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 1ll sorting with my present 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1867 - 494 pages
...youth ;* as were HOHBES and BACON. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...and hear What from without comes often 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 public good ; myself... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...events, the lines well describe his own youth, when he says, in the first book of 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...events, the lines well describe his own youth, when he says, in the first book of 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 I... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...headaches, until midnight and even later. His John the Baptist, a character resembling himself, says: ' 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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 pages
...forget that Milton puts these words into the mouth of his Divine Speaker in the " 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... | |
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 400 pages
...hardly a success artistically. It is agreed that the poet had his own childhood in mind in the lines 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.1 Milton... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 442 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 1ll 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 be publick 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... 
