 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 - Страница 277написао/ла William Cowper - 1808Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | 1839 - 428 страница
...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 - 586 страница
...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 - 316 страница
...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 - 362 страница
...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 - 566 страница
...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 - 268 страница
...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 - 628 страница
...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 - 316 страница
...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 - 670 страница
...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 - 284 страница
...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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