 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
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compartí ! 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 i All righteous things : therefore аЬогс ту years, ! The law of G ml I ruad, and found it... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 sider
...This is the reading in Milton's own edition ; in all the rest that I have seen it is meditation. 201. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ;] How finely and consistently does Milton here imagine the youthful meditations of our Saviour! how... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 sider
...1 Cor. xiii. 11. only inverting the thought. When I was a child, I spake as a child, &.c. 204. — myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth,] Alluding to our Saviour's words, John xviii. 37. To this end was 1 born, and for this cause came I... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 sider
...Christ spent most of his leisure in this manner. Our great Epic bard hath represented him as saying: "When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...and thence to do "What might be public good; myself 1 thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: therefore above my years... | |
 | 1826 - 370 sider
...hours, after having displayed the most amazing proofs of intellectual talent. SIR PHILLIP 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 Llizabeth's court. In early youth, he... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 sider
...hear What from without comes often to my ears, 193 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! soo 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, and... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 sider
...hours, after having displayed the most amazing proofs of intellectual talent. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to do What might be public good : myself I thought Bora to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." PAHADISE REGAINED. Sir Philip Sydney... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 sider
...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 sider
...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...Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he puhlic good : myself I thought ""«", to U»t end, horn to.promote all truth, JlA\ righteous things... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1830 - 488 sider
...afforded a vent for his affections, His highest authority, however, is Milton, 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... | |
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