 | 1904 - 774 páginas
...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 the skies. And now, farewell ! — Time, unrevoked, has run His wonted course; yet what... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 páginas
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From lions enthroned and rulers of 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 course, yet what I... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 páginas
...birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — 110 The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now,...contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem t' have Iiv"d my"cKiictfaopor n' To have renewjl the joys that once_: Without the sin of violating thine :... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Northampton (Mass.) - 1905 - 566 páginas
...equally consecrated, for I can say: "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." That is William Cowper. [Applause.] On his mother's picture. But I share the glory with William Cowper.... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 páginas
...resembled in many points of his history : — " 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." Herbert has kinship with two noble families of this name, and each noble family... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...and rulers of the earth; 110 But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies! And now, farewell! — Time unrevok'd...done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, us I seem t' have lived my childhood o'er again; To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, Without... | |
 | 1856 - 712 páginas
...these 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...rise, — The son of parents pass'd into the skies." He received his early education in the parish school of Dunscore, to which place his parents removed... | |
 | 1907 - 372 páginas
...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 the skies. And now farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wished... | |
 | D. H. Wever - 1908 - 656 páginas
...From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The Jon of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell!...yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, nor sought in vain, I seem t' have liv'd my childhood o'er again; To have renew'd the joys that once... | |
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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 pass'd into the skies. 
