| Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...sympathy aroused in England, and for ever impressed on history by the sublime voice of Milton. " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| Protestant association - 1839 - 496 pages
...people in Cromwell's time—a sonnet that should be in the very heart of every Englishman. "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...leans In peace, and reckons thee her eldest son. XVIII. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| American periodicals - 1840 - 568 pages
...О Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Even those who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones ; Forget not ; in thy book record their groans :' it may be considered... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...eye. ON THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bone.i Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans, Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| John Ross Macduff - France - 1841 - 214 pages
...Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose tones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold: Ev'n them, who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans, Who were thy sheep, and... | |
| Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...realms, came to gaze upon the unequaled twain ; and when the inspired secretary exclaimed — ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,' the guilty persecutors shrunk aghast, for they knew that where tha voice of Milton could reach, the... | |
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