 Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.  The Task - Pàgina 143per William Cowper - 1817 - 188 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pàgines
...Jerorue, They lived unknown, till persecution dragged them into fame, and chased them np to heaven. een accomplished ; more than people are aware— so gradual has been enbalms and sanctifies his song : and history, so warm on meaner themes, is cold on this. — Cowper.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pàgines
...— /mm/r. They lived unknown, till persecution dragged them into fame, and chased them np to heaven. ersua eiibalms and sanctifies his eong : and history, so warm ou meaner themes, is cold on this. — Cowper.... | |
 | William James Heaton - 1910 - 314 pàgines
...friends had any moral conrage. CHAPTEE XI THE BETRAYAL AND MARTYRDOM OF TYNDALE "His blood was shed, In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. • 0 pitiless skies ! why did your clouds retain, For peasants' iields their floods of hoarded rain... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pàgines
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is abed In confirmation of the noblest claim, 720 music steals upon the sky, And soften'd souuds along...waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently lived unknown Till Persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff, Catherine Hall - 1987 - 577 pàgines
...adulthood, his religious faith gave meaning to his life and he saw spiritual salvation as man's 'noblest claim': to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. . . .81 At the Day of Judgement, when the trumpet sounded, 'arrogant distinctions' would fall and only... | |
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