 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 240 str.
...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 the skies." COWPER. LONDON: ....... ''•'•'•' PRINTED FOR. HARVEY... | |
 | Richard Shackleton - 1822 - 242 str.
...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 the skies." COWPER. LONDON : PRINTED FOR HARVEY AND DARTON, GRACECHURCH-STREET.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 str.
...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...Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is doneBy contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem'd to have lived my childhood o'er... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 str.
...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...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... | |
 | 1865 - 346 str.
...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...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 not dishonour their... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 str.
...thou art safe, ar.d 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 — Ihe son of parents passM into the skies. " Garth. And now, farewell— time unrevoked has run His... | |
 | 1824 - 542 str.
...feeling of an amiable British poet : " 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. COWPEB. His father was a respectable inhabitant of Lichtenfels, in the hi2i... | |
 | William Cowper - 1825 - 244 str.
...safe, and he ! The 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...Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By Contemplation's help, not sought in vain I seem to have lived my childhood o'er... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 str.
...that thou art safe, and he ! The 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...parents pass'd into the skies. And now farewell — Time un revoked has run His wonted course, yet what I wish'd is done. By Contemplation's help, not sought... | |
 | 918 str.
...with grateful recollections, quoting the words of the poet Cowper : " My boast is, not that I derived my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth...far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies." Whilst under their care he was a constant attendant on public worship, and... | |
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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. 
