 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...and hear What from without comes often to my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compared. 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was...and thence to do, What might be public good; myself 1 thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things; therefore, above my years,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...find text to support these distortions. Had not Milton (or was it Christ ?) said in Paradise Regained: 'When I was yet a child, no childish play / To me...my mind was set / Serious to learn and know' ? And this being so, II Penseroso was obviously a selfportrait; L'Allegro, someone else. The baffled, disappointed... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...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, 205 All righteous things: therefore above my years, The Law of God I read, and found it sweet, Made... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...my ears, 111 sorting with my present state compared.0 200 When I was yet a child, no childish play0 To me was pleasing, all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do0 What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth,0 All righteous... | |
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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. 
