 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
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...; as were HOBBES and BACON. MILTON has preserved for us, in solemn numbers, his school-life — ' ' When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thent-e to do What might be public good : myself... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pages
...germinate in that childish mind. One in looking upon this young face feels the truth of what Milton says of himself: " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing : all my mind wag set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | 1841 - 508 pages
...the desert, after his high appointment was announced to him, — as retracing his holy life : — ' 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 - 1841 - 840 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state eompar'd ! ibe Belinda's name. PROLOGUE TO MB. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OP CA ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thenre to do \Vhat might be public good ; myself... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1842 - 384 pages
...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 pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | Readings - 1843 - 466 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 roamed at large the lonely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present stale compar'd ! s. Rece ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good : myself... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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 pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...Coin ibra, 1811, before I returned to England."6 " Concourse, and noise, and toll, he ever fled, Nor cared to mingle In the clamorous fray Of squabbling...the forest sped/' His highest authority, however, Is MUton, who says of himself, " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing." Such general... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...mad. But why should I his childish feats display ! Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled ; Nor Or roamed at large the lonely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep... | |
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