 | 1832 - 406 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O ! the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast...farewell — Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, vat what I wished is done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem to have lived my childhood... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...immediate neighbour* Admirably transfused and heightened, by the greatest of our later poets : . . • My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parent* passed into the skies.' a <2 hood. The master, Mr. Michael Ryan, was an expert Latinist ; pedantic,... | |
 | 1832 - 418 pages
...Author of " Interesting Narratives," &c. " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthfon'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies. " IT has been well remarked by a respectable writer, that " the memorials of the good constitute one... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. But, oh ! the thought that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me : My boast...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! Deprived thus early of his excellent and most affectionate parent, he was sent, at this tender age,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 312 pages
...Always from port withheld, always distressed— Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, 35 My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...proud pretensions rise— The son of parents, passed itito the skies. EXERCISE 104. Extract from "The Grave."—MONTGOMERY 1 There is a calm for those who... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 pages
...thought that thou art safe, and h« ' That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that 1 deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies I Deprived thus early of bis excellent and most affectionate parent, he was sent, at this tender age,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...me more distant from a prosperous course'. Yef , O', the thought', that thou art safe', and he'! — That thought is joy', arrive what may to me'. My boast...rise', The son of parents' passed into the skies'. *Knyrents— not, kftr'runts. bPa'rents. And now', farewell'. Time unrevoked has run' His wonted course',... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1834 - 442 pages
...are mentioned merely with a view to the introduction of the following lines, from the same poem : " My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...far my proud pretensions rise — The Son of Parents pass'd into the skies." Before obtaining his Mother's picture, the occasion, it is well known, of these... | |
 | 1835 - 440 pages
...rest, Always from port withheld, always distressed — Me, howling winds drive devious, tempest tost; Sails ript. seams opening wide, and compass lost,...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies !" Deprived thus early of his excellent and most affectionate parent, he was sent, at this tender age,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1835 - 328 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast...done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seemed t' have lived my childhood o'er again ; To have renewed the joys that once were mine, Without... | |
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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! 
