 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 - 1835 - 448 pàgines
...And Thornton is familiar with the joy. Charity, The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his seng : And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 446 pàgines
...And Thornton is familiar with the joy. Charity. The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'u. Their ashes flew —No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 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...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pàgines
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame 725 And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pàgines
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame 725 And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pàgines
...them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame 725 And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With...bard embalms and sanctifies his song ; And history M, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. .She execrates indeed 730 The tyranny that doom'd them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 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 feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to he divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few rememher them. They liv'd unknown,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 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...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their namci No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.... | |
 | 1837 - 578 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... | |
 | 1838 - 730 pàgines
...equal laws, But Maiiyrt struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skia ; Yet few remember them. They lived nnknown 'Till Persecution dngg'd them into fame, And chas'd... | |
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