...ton's Childhood. JHEN I was yet a child, no childifh play | To me was pleafing : all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good : myfelf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things. — MILTON. Mil...

...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...

...ftate compar'd. zoo When I was yet a child, no childim play To me was pleafing, all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my felf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...

...ftate compar'd. 2oo When I was yet a child, no childifh play To me was pleating, all my mind was fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my felf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...

...and hear What from without comes oft'n to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd. 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, • 205 All righteous...

...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, and...

...Legouis and Cazamian, History of English Literature, tr. Irvine, p. 376; Tillyard, Milton, pp. 305-6. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my self I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...

...always well directed, and it may be said of him, in that Miltoaic language which 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...

...emerge from pebbles and whatnots, the array of playthings. The fact that Christ petulantly claims, "When I was yet a child, no childish play / To me...pleasing, all my mind was set / Serious to learn and know" (1.201-203) alerts us to the possibility that our author associated danger with the learning that is...

...Protestants. Milton, certainly, deliberately emphasized Christ's childhood as being a serious time: 'When I was yet a child, no childish play/ To me was pleasing', but Quarles's sentimentally celebrated Christ's childhood 21 . William Crashaw's objections are worth...