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 Poetical Works of John Milton - Seite 295von John Milton, John Mitford - 1863 - 625 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Milton - 1759 - 414 Seiten
...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,...above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfeclion, that ere yet my age Had meafur'd... | |
| John Milton - 1759 - 420 Seiten
...pleafmg; 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,...above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfeclion, that ere yet my age Had meafur'd... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 262 Seiten
...my mind was fet _ j 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,...above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfeftion, that ere yet my age Had meafur'd... | |
| John Milton - 1785 - 360 Seiten
...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,...above my years, The law of God I read, and found it fweet, Made it my whole delight, and in it grew To fuch perfeftion, that ere yet my age Had meafqr'd... | |
| John Bell - 1788 - 628 Seiten
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compar'd ! zoo When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Poiumel11. B Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good ; myself I thought... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 Seiten
...all my mind wa> fet Serious to learn and know, and thence to Jo What might be public good ; myfelf I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, 205 All righteous things : therefore above my yiurs, i [O] MILTON S WORKS. The hw of God 1 read, and found it fwret, Made it my whole delight, and... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...and here What from without comes often to my ears, III sorting with my present state compar'dt When 1 was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing...be public good ; myself I thought Born to that end, bora to promote all truth, AH righteon« things : therefore, Above my years, The law of God I read,... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
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