 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...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...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — time, unrevok'd, has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1803 - 310 pages
...me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; * Garth. But higher far my proud pretensions rise..,. The son...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell.. ..time, unrevok'd, has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 226 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...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...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 498 pages
...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...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My hoast is not, that I deduce my hirth From loins enthron'd, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud...pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell — Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Anecdotes - 1809 - 234 pages
...thought is joy, arrive what may ts 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...parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell; time, unrevok'd has run His wanted course, yet what I wiah'd is done, By contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...pretensions rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies. And now, farewell— Time unrevok'd has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done....contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem'd t' have liv'd my childhood o'er again : To have renew'd the joys that once were mine, 'Without the... | |
 | Peter L. Courtier - Christian biography - 1809 - 392 pages
...for me to feel, as Cowper felt, — -— 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 passed into the skies! Accustomed thus early to religion, continually mixing, almost from the cradle,... | |
 | Garnet Terry - 1809 - 414 pages
...it is for me to feel, as Cowper felt, 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 passed into the skies ! :"*•'•» Accustomed thus early to religion, continually mixing, almost... | |
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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. 
