 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
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 532 sider
...squabbling imps, but to the forest sped. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1831 - 576 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 504 sider
...squabbling imps, but to the forest sped. His highest anthority, 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... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 sider
...and always well directed, and It may be said of him, in the Miltonic language he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; himself he thought Born to that end, born, to promote all trath, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 sider
...and always well directed, and it may be said of him, in the Miltonic language he loved, • all his mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; himself he thought Born. to that end, born, to promote all truth, And righteous things. He despised... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 sider
...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... | |
 | 1833 - 626 sider
...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 sider
...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...and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore,... | |
 | John Galt - 1834 - 370 sider
... LITERARY LIFE, .. , ANll MISCELLANIES, JOHN gALT. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...know, and thence to do What might be public good. MILTON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH ; AND T. CADELL, STRAND, LONDON. .... | |
 | John Galt - 1834 - 372 sider
... V1.1 ' .I . .* 0: s A k\ LITERARY LIFE, MISCELLANIES, JOHN GALT. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to du What might be public goo<L Mil. TON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AWP... | |
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