 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 - 1841 - 358 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...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, VOL. II. U To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pàgines
...testimony of Jesus Christ." " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our'claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies." Honour to the memory of those who earnestly contended, and courageously died for the truth in that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 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 name*... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1842 - 348 pàgines
...his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER IV. -Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them... | |
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 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." This happened several months before his death, and was stated to the writer, at the time, by the lady... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1843 - 110 pàgines
...happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER IV -Their blood la shed Tn confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to...immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them... | |
 | James Grant - 1843 - 922 pàgines
...what was occupying her husband's mind when he wished her to read it. She commenced reading : — " Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven." Here Mrs. Thomson's feelings overcame her. The appropriateness of the passage to her husband's... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1843 - 130 pàgines
...his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER IV. -Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim,— Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with Gt>d, to be divinely free. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1844 - 266 pàgines
...radiant than the princely owners of that castle ever wore. But so it is — " Their blood was 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 chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew,... | |
 | 1844 - 406 pàgines
...Dissenters, whose cause he died in defending, should not raise him £66 13s. 4d. to save his life." " He died In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...soar and to anticipate the skies, Yet few remember him. TP FORBEARANCE BETWEEN CHURCH MEMBERS. " Forbearing one another in love." — Eph. tv. 2. Very... | |
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