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! Sermons - Página 203por Edward Dorr Griffin - 1839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Cowper - 1818 - 244 páginas
...joy, arrive what may to me. * Oarlh. 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. And now farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course,... | |
| William Cowper - 1818 - 244 páginas
...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 pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time unrevoked has run His. wonted course,... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 páginas
...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 - 1869 - 306 páginas
...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,... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 páginas
...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 páginas
...GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. '• 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 child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET. .'.-»... | |
| Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 páginas
...HER GRANDFATHER. ABRAHAM SHACKLETON. " 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 child of parents pass'd into the skies." COWPER. LONDON: ....... ''•'•'•' PRINTED FOR. HARVEY AND DARTON, BRACECHURCH-STREET.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 páginas
...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 pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course,... | |
| 1824 - 542 páginas
...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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 446 páginas
...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 pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course,... | |
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