 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - Počet stránok 548
...unfavourable circumstances, " conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity ;" moulded in utero to sin ad libitum. "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." These... | |
 | Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch - 1860 - Počet stránok 224
...exertion. Thus does the great English poet describe him, as communing with himself in meditation. " 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... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1860 - Počet stránok 292
...really written by the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself as a child : — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing," &c. The print is mentioned in Granger and Bromley. us WN Gardiner sculp. ; an oval, 6.2 x 5.9 * in... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - Počet stránok 424
...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 he puhlic good; myself... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1860 - Počet stránok 672
...forget that Milton puts these words into the mouth of his Divine Speaker in the " 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, aud thence to do, What might be public good ; myself... | |
 | Richard Sibbes - 1862 - Počet stránok 574
...study.'* Milton's immortal portraiture of ' The Child ' may be taken to describe Master Richard : — V 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."... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - Počet stránok 454
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - Počet stránok 584
...hear " What from without comes often to my ears, "111 sorting with my present state compared ! 2OO " 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 Kirk - 1864 - Počet stránok 448
...service, forcibly reminds us of Milton's beautiful description of the " Holy Child Jesus : " — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Seriously to learn and know, and thence to do, What might be public good." From... | |
 | 1865 - Počet stránok 782
...really written by the poet with some reference to his own recollections of himself as a child:— " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all ray mind was set. Serious to learn and know, and thence to do, What might bo public good ; myself... | |
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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... 
