 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
 | Waldenses - 1853 - 424 pages
...the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn. sylvania. SLOTE & MOONEY, Stereotypers. AVENGE, 0 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 worshipped stocks and stones,... | |
 | Papacy - 1853 - 566 pages
...burning with indignant compassion, he had penned on the occasion that immortal sonnet:— " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold," etc. The Protector Cromwell, also, " rose like a lion out of his place," and at his command Milton... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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... | |
 | William McGirr - Free thought - 1854 - 418 pages
...in the doctrine of the Trinity. Even the martyrs of Piedmont would of themselves be a large army. " 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... | |
 | William McGirr - Free thought - 1854 - 420 pages
...doctrine of the Trinity. Even the martyrs of Piedmont would of themselves be a large army. " 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... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Exodus J5 : 7-77 The Bible: King James Version On the Late Massacre in Piedmont Avenge, O Lord, thy...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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Free trade - 1993 - 678 pages
...Fiction (1961) his early enthusiasm for Milton's prose and doctrines. "I had known the sonnet beginning 'Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold'. But I had not known until I read his prose works that in his capacity of Foreign Secretary he sent... | |
 | Masson - Poetry - 1995 - 228 pages
...the twilight and the misty rain To pay their tax. 1 then saw England plain. ALICE DUER MILLER 10 WAR On the Late Massacre in Piedmont Avenge, O Lord, thy...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... | |
 | Roger D. Launius, John E. Hallwas - Religion - 1996 - 300 pages
...Griffith Richards, found that the words that came to her again and again were those of John Milton in "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont": Avenge, O Lord,...the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshiped stock and stones. . . . Perhaps in the interest... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...of martyrs is the seed of the Church, called fervently upon a God of wrath to punish and remember : 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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