 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
 | 1826 - 300 pages
...Minstrels. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 pages
...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 pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good : myself... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...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 pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he puhlic good : myself... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...mad. But why should I Ms childish feats display? Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever lied ; Nor was complete. Hamilton wrote a serious poem, entitled 'Contemplation,' and a natio Or roamed at large the louely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some twwildered stream. To deep... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 482 pages
...describes his ideal minstrel : — • •'• Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fiod, Nor cored to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps, but to the forest sped." win it, but by the unfair treatment of his own boarding-house, where we boxed — I had not even a... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever fled ; Nor car'd 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... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...XVII. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil, be 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... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 pages
...But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever fled ; Nor car'd 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... | |
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