 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 pass'd into the skies.  Poems - Strana 277podľa William Cowper - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - 1839 - Počet stránok 586
...poet, Cowper, in his Lines upon receiving his Mother's Portrait, My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the Earth ; But...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 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 Grave." — MONTGOMERY 1 There is a calm... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - Počet stránok 362
...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 parentsb passed into the skies'. And now', farewell'. Time unrevoked has run' His wonted course', yet... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Počet stránok 566
...of England's best poets : " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, or nobles of the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies." We can boast of nothing that our own head does not contrive, and our hand achieve,... | |
 | Grace Soper - 1839 - Počet stránok 268
...Ree. xiv. 18. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth, Bnt higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents pass'd into the skies. COWPER. MY dear mother, during life, felt deeply the burden of the body of sin and death, but she was... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - Počet stránok 628
...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... | |
 | William Buell Sprague - 1839 - Počet stránok 316
...sentiment of the beloved Cowper our own : " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthion'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... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - Počet stránok 670
...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... | |
 | John Newton Brown - 1840 - Počet stránok 284
...the beautiful language of Cowper — " 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 is it so — my father — mother — gone ? Are they both dead ? Alas... | |
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