 | 1865 - 346 páginas
...son, even when far advanced in life, has repeated with tears those beautiful lines of Cowper : — ' My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies.' And as he has thus repeated them has resolved that he would... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 páginas
...Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! The thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is...the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time un revoked has run His wonted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 páginas
...Vet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! The thought is joy, arrive what may to me. • Garth. My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...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... | |
 | 1826 - 440 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But, oh! the thought that thou art safe, and he! That thought...the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies !" Deprived thus early of his excellent and most affectionate... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought...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 - 1826 - 242 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Tet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he '. That thought...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 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O the thought that thou art safe, and he ! That thought...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... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought...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... | |
 | 1828 - 814 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought...the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 páginas
...And day by day some current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous course. Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought...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... | |
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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. 
