 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 Life of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals - Page 21by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 735 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Beattie, Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 308 pages
...mad. But wby sbould I his childisb feats display i Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's bead, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 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 thtnce to do, What might be public good; myself... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...XVII. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps, but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head 5 Or, where the maze of some bewilderd stream To deep... | |
 | Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...Burns were remarkably serious boya. Milton has preserved for us, in solemn numbers, his scbool-llfe : " When I was yet a child, no childish play ' , . , To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serions to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good, myself... | |
 | 1817 - 576 pages
...How different is the youthful picture of himself which has supposed our Saviour to draw ! • — " 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... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 pages
...mates. Beattie paints himself in his own Minstrel, ' Concourse and noise, and toil he ever fled, Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped.' " Bossuet would not join his young companions, and flew to his solitary task, while the classical boys... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...' But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 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 public good ; myself... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...mad. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
 | 1821 - 282 pages
...mad. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled : Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps, but to the forest sped, Or roam'd at large the lonely mountain's head ; Or, where the maze of some bevvilder'd stream To deep... | |
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