 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.  Life and works of William Cowper - Stran 373avtor: William Cowper - 1835Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Sydney Taylor - 1843 - 568 strani
...sweets of liberty and equal laws : But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...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 - 130 strani
...unto him who seeketh his happiness apart from thee ! He shall be miserably disappointed. CHAPTER IV. -Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...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... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1843 - 110 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1844 - 266 strani
...more 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...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,... | |
 | John Foxe - 1844 - 1204 strani
...briar destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy.'1 — Hen. xi. 36—38. " their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...divinely free. To soar, and to anticipate the skies.*'— Co WPIR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. J. LONDON: GEORGE VIRTUE, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXLIV. - Or... | |
 | 1844 - 406 strani
...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... | |
 | John Foxe - 1844 - 1182 strani
...afflicted, tormented ; of whom the world wan not worthy."— H BR. xi. 36—38. " their blood is nhed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to...divinely free. To soar, and to anticipate the skies."— COWPRR. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: GEORGE VIRTUE, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXLIV. LIBRARY... | |
 | 1844 - 562 strani
...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 - 824 strani
...of liberty and equal laws ; l'»:i martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...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... | |
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