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
| William Cowper - 1832 - Liczba stron: 602
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - Liczba stron: 192
...claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To §oar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them....unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, 726 And liistory, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed . 730 The tyranny... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - Liczba stron: 812
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shad In confirmation of the noblest claim,— Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes,... | |
| Joseph Emerson - 1832 - Liczba stron: 122
...prize, 15 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 ! ÎÏ) Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown. Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd... | |
| James Bell - 1832 - Liczba stron: 580
...shud In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk wiih God, to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes,... | |
| John Scott - 1833 - Liczba stron: 374
...most essential doctrmes which respect " Their blood was 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." We have given some account of the writings of Luther as far as the end of the year 1541. His principal... | |
| 1834 - Liczba stron: 220
...the name of the "Whigs' Graves." - their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Their 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 chased them up to heaven." Meanwhile, the... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 446
...Cha'-ity. The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...— No marble tells us whither. With their names No hard embalms and sanctifies his song: And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 620
...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,...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 448
...Charity, The martyrs of the Reformation : Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...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... | |
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