 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...ancestral pride. " 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." Next to birth we mentioned BANK. Rank which in this country takes precedence from office, when it has... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 pages
...may to me. My boast is not, that I doduco my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son...By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t" have liv'd my childhood o'er again ; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the ein... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...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...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 - 1854 - 806 pages
...far my proud pretensions rise— The son of parents puss'd into the skies. And now farewell—Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd...By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t' have liv'd my childhood o'er again; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without the sin... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 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... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies. And now farewell — Time unrevoked 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... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...may to me; My boast is not, that I deduce, my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth j' But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son...pass-'d into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has rurt His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is don*. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | Edward William Hooker - 1854 - 126 pages
...peculiar home." " My boast is not that I derive 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." VI.— MRS. KEZIA THOMPSON. "Mas. KEZIA THOMPSON, wife of Deacon Augustus Thompson, was born in Great... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1854 - 366 pages
...boast is not that I derive my birth From loins enthroned, or rulers of the earth ; But higher still my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies." — COWPER. t " Gardez bien." In allusion to this motto a Scottish poet says : — " Eight centuries... | |
 | William Cowper - Poetry - 1854 - 488 pages
...birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — no The son of 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... | |
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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... 
