 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But, oh! the thought that thou art safe, and he! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me : My boast...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies !" Deprived thus early of his excellent and most affectionate parent, he was sent, at this tender age,... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...a view to the introduction of the following lines, from the same poem : "" My boast is not, that 1 deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of...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... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...with a view to the introduction of the following lines, from the same poem: " My boast is not, that 1 deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Tet 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... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 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... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 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 Johnstone - 1827 - 596 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Tet 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...Johnson, " by four different lines from Henry the Third king of England." Cowper says of himself, " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth, But higher fur my proud pretensions rise." The proud pretensions thus asserted by this truly humble man were the... | |
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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! 
