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... A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank]. - Page 202by James Flamank - 1833Full view - About this book
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III sorting with my present state compar'd ! 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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sortitfg 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 - 1823 - 220 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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compartà ! 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 public good : myself... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - 580 pages
...Metaphysicce," and " Institutiones Medicce." Lugd. Bat. 1624 ; small duodecimo. POETS. JOHN MILTON, (Mat. 10.) " 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... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...Metaphysics," and " Institutiones Medico:." Lugd. Bat. 1624 ; small duodecimo. POETS. JOHN MILTON, (Mat. 10.) " 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 - 1824 - 468 pages
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, III 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 public good ; myself... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 pages
...hours, after having displayed the most amazing proofs of intellectual talent. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. " 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 - 1826 - 540 pages
...little distance of the wilderness, being only a very few miles from the Dead Sea. DUNSTER. Ver. 201. When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ;] • How finely and consistently, as Mr. Thyer observes, does Milton here imagine the youthful meditations... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to myears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! 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... | |
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