 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
 | Hill Dawe Wickham - Waldenses - 1847 - 264 pages
...sympathizing and indignant language of Milton, who thus apostrophizes an avenging God : "Avenge, OTiord, 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,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Biography & Autobiography - 1848 - 498 pages
...His sublime sonnet on the Vaudois will live for ever, a monument both to his genius and his religion. 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... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1848 - 452 pages
...addressed, is giving notice that he will answer it. With new hope and fervour let us pray — M Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old wf ' » « Forget not; Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all th' Italian... | |
 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - Readers - 1847 - 502 pages
...creatures have they sheltered in their stony bosoms, from the weapons and tortures of their fellow men ! Avenge, O 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... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...that the word " slain"1 is not used in the sense of slaughtered, as in Milton's sonnet — " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ;" but it is used rather in the sense of the Irish word " kilt." Even in their slain state, they can... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1849 - 578 pages
...stable Bright-harnessed angels sit in order serviceable. ON THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. j] AVENGE, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...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... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Authors, American - 1849 - 338 pages
...glorious start, Where, side by side, they dwelt apart, Jn the quiet homestead of the heart. A VOICE FROM PIEDMONT. •" Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints,...bones Lie scattered on the Alpine Mountains cold." Milton—Sonnet on the Massacres in Piedmont. BEND from that Heaven, whose visioned glories gave, Thou... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Poetry - 1849 - 168 pages
...by side, they dwelt apart, In the quiet homestead of the heart. A VOICE FROM PIEDMONT. " Avenge, 0 Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine Mountains cold." Milton — Sonnet on the Massacres in Piedmont. BEND from that Heaven, whose visioned glories gave,... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...contemporary themes, since the breath ceased which uttered that tremendous imprecation — ' Avenge, oh Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ! ' — we say loftier than almost any, for we cannot forget Mr. Southey's ' Ode, written during the... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...delight; But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night. ON THE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered...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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