 | 1824 - 542 pages
...father and mother, and could have declared with the grateful feeling of an amiable British poet : " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies. COWPEB. His father was a respectable inhabitant of Lichtenfels, in the hi2i... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet О the thought, that thou art safe, ar.d 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 — Ihe son of parents... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 432 pages
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 | 1865 - 346 pages
...those beautiful lines 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 as he has thus repeated them has resolved that he would not dishonour their... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 426 pages
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 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...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 proud...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By Contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 238 pages
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 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! The 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... | |
 | 918 pages
...quoting the words of the poet Cowper : " My boast is, not that I derived 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." Whilst under their care he was a constant attendant on public worship, and... | |
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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! 
