 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 works of Thomas Moore - Strana 56podľa Thomas Moore - 1832Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Milton - 1870 - Počet stránok 382
...events, the lines well describe his own youth, when he says, in the first book of 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 I... | |
 | John Milton - 1925 - Počet stránok 102
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd. 200 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 publick good ; my self... | |
 | Francis La Mar Janney - 1925 - Počet stránok 154
...seriousness even as a child. The following lines, no doubt, have an autobiographical significance : 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;54 It was... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1927 - Počet stránok 668
...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... | |
 | 1927 - Počet stránok 658
...Was fürs Gemeinwohl gut; ich schien mir nur Dazu geboren, Wahrheit zu befördern Und alles Recht. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - Počet stránok 412
...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 pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good; my self... | |
 | 1909 - Počet stránok 502
...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... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - Počet stránok 412
...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 pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good ; my self... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - Počet stránok 372
...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 was pleasing, all my mind was set / Serious to learn and know" (1.201-203) alerts us to the possibility that our... | |
 | Thomas F. Healy - 1986 - Počet stránok 180
...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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