 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...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...parents 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Christian life - 1847 - 500 pages
...same poem : " 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." Before obtaining his Mother's picture, the occasion, it is -well known, of these beautiful lines, Cowper... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1848 - 432 pages
...same poem : " 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." Before obtaining his Mother's picture, the occasion, it is well known, of these beautiful lines, Cowper... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine ; And, while the wings of... | |
 | 1854 - 672 pages
...says — " 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." We think of Milton, as the sublimcst and grandest ; of Cowper, as the most amiable and tender of the... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - Mothers - 1850 - 150 pages
...' • * * My boast Is not, that I deduced my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished, is done By Contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies. And now farewell — Time uarevoked hath run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done,...By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t' have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without the sin... | |
 | Child rearing - 1850 - 408 pages
...Cowper — " 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." Editorial. THE CHILD JESUS QUESTIONING THE DOCTORS. LESSONS FOR MOTHERS OR MATERNAL ASSOCIATIONS. HEN... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...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...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... | |
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I seem to have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the sin of violating thine ; And, while the wings of fancy still are free, And I can view... 
