 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
 | 1838 - 504 pàgines
...life, and happy death," whose blood was shod In confirmation of tho noblest claim. Their claim to food upon Immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the sldos. Christianity was not established by law until the fourth century, and yet our critic (who talks... | |
 | 1838 - 734 pàgines
...They lived unknown Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame. And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes No marble tells us whither : with their names, No bard embalms and sanctifies his song, And H istory, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on that. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pàgines
...In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon eternal truth, To walk with God, to he divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their asiles... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 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 dragged them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes flew—-... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pàgines
...laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed I n confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till perseeution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (DD.) - 1839 - 688 pàgines
...equal laws. Hut Martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, 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. COWPEH. BISHOP HOOPER. Jonx HOOPER student and graduate in the university of Oxford, after the study... | |
 | 1839 - 678 pàgines
...some other care of him, this excellent person sunk under the burden, and died there also." He died, " In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar and to antieipate the skies : Yet few remember him." COWPER. Those who wish for a more extended account of... | |
 | Protestant association - 1840 - 302 pàgines
...equal laws ; But martvrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Jet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame. And chased them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pàgines
...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...unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, 725 And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pàgines
...treasure by the heroic and death-daring fidelity to conscience of God loving men. Their " blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free." This series of sixpenny books aims at the reproduction and illustration of the truths and principles... | |
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