 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 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...birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth ; • Garth. But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 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...Time unrevoked has run His wonted course, yet what I -washed is done. By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem to have lived my childhood o'er... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...force Sets me more distant from a prosp'rous 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 Prom loins enthron'd, and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — 110 The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 556 pages
...again in the lines on the receipt of his mother's picture he touches lightly on the same string : " My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...rise — The son of parents passed into the skies ! " He lost his mother when he was six years old. She died in 1737, at the age of thirty-four, in giving... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 540 pages
...again in the lines on the receipt of his mother's picture he touches lightly on the same string : " My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins...pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the shies ! " He lost his mother when he was six years old. She died in 1737, at the age of thirty-four,... | |
 | 1840 - 540 pages
...that voice which had been music to me from my earliest childhood I heard no more. • • My boast ia not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and...the earth, But higher far my proud pretensions rise — Son of a mother pass'd into the skies." ' After the decease of his mother, I desired him," continues... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1914 - 660 pages
...bring my address to a close with a quotation I came across a short time ago. It runs as follows : ' My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretentions rise The son of parents passed into the skies.' It seems to me that this exactly describes... | |
 | John Allan Wyeth - 1914 - 606 pages
...LONDON MCMXIV BY .. ' COPYRIGHT. IBM. BY HARPER a BROTHERS TO LOUIS WEISS WYETH AND EUPHEMIA ALLAN 'MY BOAST IS NOT THAT I DEDUCE MY BIRTH FROM LOINS ENTHRONED AND RULERS OF THE EARTH; BUT HIGHER STILL MY PROUD PRETENSIONS RISE, THE SON OF PARENTS PASSED INTO THE SKIES." COH'PER 395349 CONTENTS... | |
 | John Allan Wyeth - 1914 - 626 pages
...BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMXIV tf^— **" 248474 TO LOUIS WEISS WYETH AND EUPHEMIA ALLAN *MY BOAST IS NOT THAT I DEDUCE MY BIRTH FROM LOINS ENTHRONED AND RULERS OF THE EARTH; BUT HIGHER STILL MY PROUD PRETENSIONS RISE, THE SON OF PARENTS PASSED INTO THE SKIES." COH'PER CONTENTS PART I... | |
 | John Allan Wyeth - 1914 - 608 pages
...PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PUQL1SHED OCTOBER. 1014 KO LOUIS WEISS WYETH AND EUPHEMIA ALLAN :<MY BOAST IS NOT THAT I DEDUCE MY BIRTH FROM LOINS ENTHRONED AND RULERS OF THE EARTH; BUT HIGHER STILL MY PROUD PRETENSIONS RISE, THE SON OF PARENTS PASSED INTO THE SKIES." COIfPEK TO CONTENTS i PART... | |
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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! 
