 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - Страниц: 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 for those who weep; A... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Страниц: 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, and that without... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 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 rise— The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell!—Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - Страниц: 554
...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 pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell ! — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 ! it is too true. And I... | |
 | 1840 - Страниц: 508
...earliest childhood 1 heard no more. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — ~ Son of a mother pas.'d into the skies." ' After the decease of his mother, I desired him," continues... | |
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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! 
