| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 sayfa
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, 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 unrevok'd has run His wonted course,... | |
| William Cowper - 1820 - 508 sayfa
...Yet O the thonght, that thou art safe, and he! , That thonght is joy, arrive what may to me. * Garth. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my prond pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time uurevoked... | |
| William Cowper - 1869 - 306 sayfa
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins euthron'd, 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 unrevok'd has run His wonted course,... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - 556 sayfa
...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...and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretentious rise— The son of parents passed into the skies. And, now farewell — time unrevoked... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 sayfa
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, 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 unrevok'd has run His wonted course,... | |
| Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 242 sayfa
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, AND SOME LETTERS, OF HER GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. '• My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...far my proud pretensions rise, The child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET. .'.-»... | |
| Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 sayfa
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. AND SOME LETTERS. OF HER GRANDFATHER. ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...far my proud pretensions rise, The child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON: ....... ''•'•'•' PRINTED FOR. HARVEY AND DARTON, BRACECHURCH-STREET.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 sayfa
...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...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,... | |
| 1865 - 346 sayfa
...son, even when far advanced in life, has repeated with tears those beautiful lines of Cowper : — ' My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies.' And as he has thus repeated them has resolved that he would... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 sayfa
...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...; 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,... | |
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