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... Life and Times of John Milton - Page 226by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Punchard - Congregationalism - 1841 - 404 pages
...worthy alike of the poet and the Christian, shall close my account of the Waldenses and Albigenses. " On the late Massacre in Piedmont.'' " Avenge, O Lord,...whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Kven them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, *... | |
| 1875 - 492 pages
...the bitter experience of their forefathers, without recalling those memorable lines of Milton — " Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even they who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not... | |
| Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...Taskmaster's 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... | |
| Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...The following noble sonnet from the pen of Milton describes the sufferings of the Waldenses : — " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy hook record... | |
| John Gordon Lorimer - Church History, France - 1842 - 524 pages
...inno* It is in connection with this massacre that Milton wrote the well known and beautiful lines : " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Ev'n them who kept the truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones. Forget... | |
| 1842 - 630 pages
...Petrarch, or of Filicaja. That sublime invocation of vengeance upon the persecutors of the Waldenses, « Avenge, o Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains coldmay be compared without fear with any Italian Sonnet of a similarly grave and solemn character,... | |
| 1843 - 488 pages
...describes the cruelties of popery. "Avenge, О Lord, Uiy slaughter'«! saint«, whose bone» Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy faith so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. Forget not, in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 996 pages
...the faith which their forefathers had avowed from generation to generation, from time immemorial. " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold." So sung Milton in the year 1655, after the appalling massacre of the Vaudois in that year. Again, the... | |
| India - 1858 - 598 pages
...compositions, the most nearly approaches the " Arise O God, let Thine enemies be scattered" of David— " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stone*. Forget not : in thy book record... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...bid thee rest. And drink thy fill of pure immortal streams. II. — ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...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... | |
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