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 Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Side 3021817Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Horae - 1851 - 414 sider
...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... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1851 - 784 sider
...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... | |
| John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 450 sider
...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... | |
| John Milton, John Mitford - 1851 - 464 sider
...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... | |
| John Milton - 2000 - 412 sider
...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... | |
| 1909 - 502 sider
...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... | |
| Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 sider
...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... | |
| New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 sider
...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... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 sider
...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... | |
| Thomas F. Healy - 1986 - 180 sider
...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... | |
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