 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...  Putnam's Monthly and the Reader - Página 3271909Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 páginas
...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...thought Born to that 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... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 páginas
...Christ spent most of his leisure in this manner. Our great epic bard hath represented him as saying : " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...thought Born to that 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... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...was pleasing; all my mind w*> set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might he puhlic good ; myself I thought Born to that 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... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 páginas
...was pleasing; all my mind was get Serious to learn and know, and thence to <k» What might be publk-k good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things: thereforc, above nvy years, The law of God I read, and found it sweet, Made it... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...was pleasing; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be publick good; myself I thought Born to that 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... | |
 | 1817 - 576 páginas
...How different is the youthful picture of himself which has supposed our Saviour to draw ! • — " When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things." , Paradise Regained, Milton Ì. 201. ' Witch. Spare not thyself — proceed.... | |
 | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley - 1818 - 500 páginas
...' When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to leam and know, and thence to do What might be public good,...thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous Hung*'— Par. Kef" If the youth of genius is apt to retire from the ordinary sports... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...myself, and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...thought Born to that 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...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...thought Born to that 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...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...thought Born to that 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... | |
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