 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 242 Seiten
...AND SOME LETTERS, OF HER GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. '• My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 Seiten
...safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But...The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is doneBy contemplation's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 Seiten
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud...The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's... | |
 | 1865 - 346 Seiten
...repeated with tears those beautiful lines of Cowper : — ' My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But...far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies.' And as he has thus repeated them has resolved that he would not dishonour their... | |
 | 1824 - 542 Seiten
...feeling of an amiable British poet : " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies. COWPEB. His father was a respectable inhabitant of Lichtenfels, in the hi2i... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...safe, ar.d he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — Ihe son of parents passM into the skies. " Garth. And now, farewell— time unrevoked has run His... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 Seiten
...art safe, and he ! The thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But...The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time un revoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By Contemplation's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 Seiten
...he ! The thought is joy, arrive what may to me. • Garth. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth , But...The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By Contemplation's... | |
 | 918 Seiten
...grateful recollections, quoting the words of the poet Cowper : " My boast is, not that I derived my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But...far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies." Whilst under their care he was a constant attendant on public worship, and... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 582 Seiten
...introduction of the following lines, from the same poem: " My boast is not, that 1 deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But...rise— The Son of Parents pass'd into the skies." Before obtaining his Mother's picture, the occasion, it is well known, of these beautiful lines, Cowper... | |
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My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! And now, farewell. 
