 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - Počet stránok 362
...prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...skies. And now farewell — Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem i ' have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Počet stránok 534
...prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Tune unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - Počet stránok 448
...thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduee my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth...skies. And now farewell — Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t' have... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - Počet stránok 436
...prosperous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art 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 higher far my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - Počet stránok 346
...spent, I learn'd, at last, submission to my lot ; • But, though I less deplore thee, ne'er forgot 4. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...skies. And now, farewell. Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, . .,-; Without... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - Počet stránok 316
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. 35 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. EXERCISE 104. Extract from "The Grace." — MONTGOMERY. 1 There is a calm for... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1838 - Počet stránok 346
...sentiment of the beloved Cowper our own : "My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins cnthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The child of parents passed into the skies." You could not have imposed upon me a more delightful task... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - Počet stránok 342
...prosperous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art 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 higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - 1839 - Počet stránok 586
...we are, may say, with the Christian poet, Cowper, in his Lines upon receiving his Mother's Portrait, My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...my proud pretensions rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies ! The station to which, by the Divine blessing, the piety and commanding talents... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 428
...boast is not, that I deduce my birth That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions...The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell!—Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished is done. By contemplation's... | |
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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! 
