 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
 | John Dowling - Papacy - 1845 - 698 pages
...allusion to the touching incident of the mother and her babe, just cited from Sir Samuel Morland. OH THE LATE MASSACRE IN' PIEDMONT. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pare of old, When all our... | |
 | England - Great Britain - 1845 - 478 pages
...describes the cruelties of Popery. " Avenges O Lords thy slaughtcr.d saintss whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy faith so pure of olds When all our fathers worshipp.d stocks and stones. Forget nots in thy book record their groans... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...they sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow-men ! Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ! •as the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred... | |
 | Robert Baird - Christian sects - 1847 - 796 pages
...well known, and so universally admired : — ' Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bone3 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... | |
 | Baptists - 1845 - 712 pages
...whom our great poet so sublimely writes, — " Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bonei Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy trutli so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones." But I turn to a more humiliating... | |
 | Robert William Overbury - Anti-clericalism - 1846 - 288 pages
...against their brethren!!" Well might our immortal bard Milton, in contemplation of such a scene, exclaim: 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... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow-men ! — " Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold !" was the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1848 - 360 pages
...sonnet, so well known, and so universally admired: — 1 Dr. Henderson's Vmulois, pp. 21, 22. ' Avenge, 0 .Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones ..^ ....the Alpine mountains cold; Even them, who kept thy Truth so pure ot old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record... | |
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...Rich. HI., i. 3. Ant. For when I am revenged upon my charm I have done all Ant. and Chop., IT. 10. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. MILTON. ' Soimcti.' but his face He, who by wilful disesteem of life And proud insensibility to hope... | |
 | Protestant association - 1847 - 424 pages
...surveying the butchery of the saints of the Most High, by Papal emissaries, exclaim, — Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; liv'u they who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,... | |
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