 | William Cowper - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...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; * Garth. But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of... | |
 | 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 1142
...beautiful sentiment of Cowper — " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, or rulers of the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The ion of parents passed into the skies." "HINDER ME NOT;" A SHORT SERMON. " Hinder me not."— Gen. xiiy.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...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... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...are several strong points of resemblance — will be reminded, at once, of those beautiful lines : ' My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise; The child of parents passed into the skies.' 'I feel inclined to hope that I am progressing, though by... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...Author of " Interesting Narratives," &c. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthfon'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud .pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies. " IT has been well remarked by a respectable writer, that " the memorials of... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...greatest of our later poets : . . • 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 parent* passed into the skies.' a <2 hood. The master, Mr. Michael Ryan, was an expert Latinist ; pedantic,... | |
 | 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...prosperous course. Yet oh, 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, 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 itito the skies. EXERCISE 104. Extract from "The Grave."—MONTGOMERY 1 There is a calm for... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...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 passed into the skies ! Deprived thus early of his excellent and most affectionate parent, he was sent,... | |
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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! 
