 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...me more distant from a prosperous course'. Vet', O', the thought', that thou art safe', and he'!— That thought is joy', arrive what may to me'. My boast...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...course. Yet, O the thought, that Ihou art safe, and he! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. 35 My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...rise — The son of parents, passed into the skies. EXERCISE 104. , . Extract from "The Grave." — MONTGOMERY 1 There is a calm for those who weep; A... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - 1839 - 586 pages
...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 higher far my proud...rise, — The son of parents passed into the skies ! The station to which, by the Divine blessing, the piety and commanding talents of Bishop Butler advanced... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...art safe, and he! My 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...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 wished... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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, and that without... | |
 | John Newton Brown - American poetry - 1840 - 284 pages
...never can he cease to bless God for them. He can truly say in the beautiful language of Cowper — " My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...— The son of parents passed into the skies.'' AND is it so — my father — mother — gone ? Are they both dead ? Alas ! it is too true. And I am then... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1840 - 508 pages
...her blessing, and that voice which had been music to m8 from my earliest childhood 1 heard no more. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — ~ Son of a mother pas.'d into the skies." ' After the decease of his mother, I desired him," continues... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast...and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretentious rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1841 - 358 pages
...thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. • Garth. MY MOTHER S PICTURE. 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... | |
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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! 
