 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 pages
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. AND SOME LETTERS. OF HER GRANDFATHER. ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON: ....... ''•'•'•' PRINTED FOR. HARVEY... | |
 | Richard Shackleton - Quakers - 1822 - 242 pages
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, AND SOME LETTERS, OF HER GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. '• My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...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 to me. My boast...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 wish'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — Ihe son of parents passM into the skies. " Garth. And now, farewell— time unrevoked has run His... | |
 | Christian life - 1865 - 346 pages
...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...rise, The son of parents passed into the skies.' And as he has thus repeated them has resolved that he would not dishonour their memories by conduct which... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous 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 enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...feeling of an amiable British poet : " 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 passed into the skies. COWPEB. His father was a respectable inhabitant of Lichtenfels, in the hi2i sbopric of Bamberg and... | |
 | 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...far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time un revoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 pages
...Vet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! The thought is joy, arrive what may to me. • Garth. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...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 wish'd... | |
 | 918 pages
...with grateful recollections, quoting the words of the poet Cowper : " My boast is, not that I derived my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth...pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies." Whilst under their care he was a constant attendant on public worship, and enjoyed the advantages of... | |
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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! 
