 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
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III anting with my present state compared ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to Icam and know, and thence to do, What might be public good; myself I... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 pages
...him 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... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...treasure for future labours. He mentions the thoughtful character of his mind in Paradise Regained : — " 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... | |
 | 1838 - 332 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 largo the lonely mountain's head : Or, where the maze of some bewilder'd stream To deep... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...Coimbra, 1811, before I returned to England."6 " Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled, Nor cared to mingle In the clamorous fray Of squabbling...however, is Milton, who says of himself, • When 1 was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Such general rules, however, are as little... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - 418 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... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...inexpreshe 9th of December is the anniversary of Г Milton's birthday : why should it not be kept ? " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn ana know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...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 pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; my self... | |
 | 1840 - 378 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... | |
 | William Turner - 1840 - 444 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, Illsorting with my present state compared! 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 public good, myself... | |
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