 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...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Side 3021817Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1842 - 392 sider
...hear What from without comes often to my ears, III sorting with my present state compared ! When I WHS yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ;...end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet. Made it my whole delight, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 sider
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet ; Made it my whole delight,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present stale compar'd ! s. Rece ; therefore, above my years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet, Made it my whole delight, and... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 sider
...hear What from without comes often to my ears, lii sorting with my present state compar'd ! Whea 1 ooting slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figure Venous to teom and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought Bom to that... | |
 | 1843 - 582 sider
...says : " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Desirous to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good." Such is the nature of Genius — such the manner in which it is often developed. It delights to leave... | |
 | 1841 - 500 sider
...the desert, after his high appointment was announced to him, — as retracing his holy life : — ' When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...be public good. Myself I thought Born to that end, bora to promote all truth, All righteous things ; therefore above ray years The law of God I read,... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1844 - 372 sider
...thus paraphrased this portion of Jesus' history : — 111 sorting 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 le;irn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, born... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 sider
...squabbling imps, but to the forest sped/' His highest authority, however, Is MUton, who says of himself, " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Such general rules, however, are as little applicable to the dispositions of men of genius as to their... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 sider
...tract, (Who, till I Ifarn'd him, had not known his might) /',..•/.,/-*. Hie Legend of Tfloma* CnuHftU. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to leant, and know, and tbence to do What might be publick good. Milton. Po.roJ.iM Regained, book i. 1.... | |
 | John Frost - 1846 - 332 sider
...apparatus of an execution : but are not able to prevent the execution of crimes. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...all truth, All righteous things." Paradise Regained. Sir Philip Sydney was one of the brightest ornaments of Queen Elizabeth's court. In early youth he... | |
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