 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 562
...the language of one of our poets, -" Their blood is shed, In confirmation of the noblest claim, The claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies : fit l*u> remember them !" I can easily understand how this has arisen : it is partly owing to the... | |
 | 1866 - Liczba stron: 824
...laws ; l'»:i martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim...remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - Liczba stron: 464
...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...remember them ; they lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither.... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1845 - Liczba stron: 672
...every word, by way of eminenee, belongs to the Memory of William Tyndale, — " His blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember him. He lived unknown Till persecution dragg'd him into fame, And chased him up to Heaven. His ashes... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Liczba stron: 490
...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...walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate1 the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged 2 them into... | |
 | Christian lyre - 1846 - Liczba stron: 188
...MARTYRS. OUR martyrs struggled for the brightest prize, And won that prize with pain. Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim...remember them : they lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven; their ashes flew— 96 THE PRESENCE OF GOD. No... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - Liczba stron: 310
...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 liv'd unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew—... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1846 - Liczba stron: 304
...left among; number of those - Who lived unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew, No marble tells...sanctifies his song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, ,4£ Is cold on thia. The tide of opposition, so far as it concerned Mr King, «ren the unshaken energy... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - Liczba stron: 556
...equal laws; u: martyrS struggle for a brighter prize, ud win it with more pain. Their blood '-- -V.'-d In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...flew —No marble tells us whither. With their names "ID bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, [s cold on this.... | |
 | James Townley - 1847 - Liczba stron: 620
...some of them, at least, the following lines are but too appropriate : — ' They lived unknown, TiU persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them...names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song ; And hiitory, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.' "* CHAPTER XIII. FIFTEENTH CENTCRY. Lollards —... | |
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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! 
