 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...prosperous course. But oh ! the thought, that thou art safe, and he ! That thought is joy, arrive2 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... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Phrenology - 1913 - 442 pages
...qualification for those who advocate Eugenics, it may rank well to proudly claim, with the poet Cowper : — " My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins...rise — The son of parents pass'd into the skies." Coming back, then, in conclusion, to the definite MORAL of our varied discourse (a Medley, we are bound... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...current's thwarting 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...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... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - Mother's Day - 1915 - 390 pages
...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet O, the thought that them art safe, and he! — That thought is joy, arrive...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... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet, oh, the thought that thou d slaveries foul Overcloud a sun-like soul ? As the...Homer clings Round Scamander's wasting springs; As enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my prond pretensions rise — i io The son of parents... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 pages
...Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet, Oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he! 106 in enthroned and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — 110 The son of parents... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1915 - 794 pages
...another convoy for the king. (i) Either, 4 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. Or, At length burst in the argent revelry , With plume, tiara, and all rich... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - England - 1916 - 1604 pages
...current's thwarting force 105 Sets me more distant from a pros'prous course. Yet, oh, the thought that thou uncoffin'd, and unknown.1 His steps are not upon...for him, — thou dost rise shake him from thee; earth;1 110 But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents pass 'd into the skies.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. Yet, oh, the thought that thou in the sky, enthroned and rulers of the earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 468 pages
...current's thwarting force Sets me more distant from a prosperous course. 105 Yet, oh, the thought that thou art safe, and he! That thought is joy, arrive what...My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — no The son of parents... | |
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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! 
