 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 be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.  Poems - Strona 151autor: William Cowper - 1802Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 504
...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 - Liczba stron: 492
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - Liczba stron: 554
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed I n confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Liczba stron: 566
...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,...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—-... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (DD.) - 1839 - Liczba stron: 688
...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,...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 - Liczba stron: 678
...person sunk under the burden, and died there also." He died, " 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 antieipate the skies : Yet few remember him." COWPER. Those who wish for a more extended account of... | |
 | Protestant association - 1840 - Liczba stron: 302
...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,...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 - Liczba stron: 240
...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 God,...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... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1841 - Liczba stron: 214
...CHAPTER IV. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew, No marble tells us whither. With...embalms and sanctifies his song, And history, so warm on other themes, Is cold on this ! COWPER. ON the 16th of August, 1689, in the depths of a forest, which... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 590
...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... | |
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