AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 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,... The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America - Page 340by John Fiske - 1899Full view - About this book
| 1814 - 804 pages
...Church of Lyons, pp 31, 32. of the saints of the most high, by Papal emissaries, exclaim : " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n they who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| 1880 - 820 pages
...of the nations, written for them, and thrilled Europe with his indignant words : " Avenge, 0 Lord 1 thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold," etc. ? And was there not a great man rising, in the Protestant North, William of Orange, the enemy of their... | |
| 1878 - 1002 pages
...— accursed bo his blasphemous memory ! ' But Milton was a Protestant, and had written : ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold!' The Creator and the Creature is a book with a comprehensive purpose, prolix at times in multitudinous... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 426 pages
...awake, and thus he utters his passionate anathema. " On the late. Massacre in Piedmont. " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| 1823 - 428 pages
...awake, and thus he utters his passionate anathema. " On the late Massacre in Piedmont. " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| 1823 - 428 pages
...awake, and thus he utters his passionate anathema. " On the late Massacre in Piedmont. " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| Charles Robert Maturin - 1824 - 820 pages
...preparing, however desperate the effort, to dispute or to delay the advance of the crusaders. CHAPTER VI. Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, who rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. — MILTON. WE have... | |
| William Stephen Gilly - 1825 - 434 pages
...dreadful persecution, of which I have been speaking, that Milton wrote the following sonnet. " 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 worship'd stocks and stones, Forget... | |
| William Mackray - 1829 - 392 pages
...people, we are' led to exclaim, in the pathetic language of Milton, — - • j 1 . // ^ Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 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, -... | |
| William Sime - 1829 - 164 pages
...was transmitted to England, that it drew from his pen the following touching sonnet: — " "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 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... | |
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