 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
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pàgines
...equal laws ; But murlyn struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pàgines
...equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...anticipate the skies. — Yet few remember them ! They lived unknown, Till- Persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pàgines
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood ia shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To §oar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till persecution dragg'd... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 812 pàgines
...recompense — But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shad In confirmation of the noblest claim,— Our claim...and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes,... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pàgines
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, 15 And win it, with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies ! ÎÏ) Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown. Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 580 pàgines
...recompense — But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shud In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk wiih God, to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their... | |
 | John Scott - 1833 - 374 pàgines
...God brought to light to his church Ihose most essential doctrmes which respect " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...DIVINELY free, ' To soar, and to anticipate the skies." We have given some account of the writings of Luther as far as the end of the year 1541. His principal... | |
 | 1834 - 220 pàgines
...the name of the "Whigs' Graves." - their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Their claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...anticipate the skies, — Yet few remember them. They lived unknown. Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven." Meanwhile, the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 446 pàgines
...And Thornton is familiar with the joy. Cha'-ity. The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...— No marble tells us whither. With their names No hard embalms and sanctifies his song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pàgines
...equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
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