 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 226 pages
...course. But oh 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 enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...course. But oh the thought, that thou art safe, and be ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and 'rulers of ihe-earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise— The son of parents pass'd into... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...Yet O the thought, that tliou art safe, and he ! That thought is 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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1818 - 244 pages
...Yet O the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...course ; But oh 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 enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The sou of parents passed into... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...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 enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretentious rise— The son of parents passed into... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...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 enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into... | |
 | Richard Shackleton - Quakers - 1822 - 242 pages
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, AND SOME LETTERS, OF 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... | |
 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 pages
...INCLUDING A CONCISE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. AND SOME LETTERS. OF 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1865 - 346 pages
...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 enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into... | |
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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! 
