 Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.  Poems - Strana 117podľa William Cowper - 1855Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Cowper - 1800 - Počet stránok 438
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No... | |
 | 1802 - Počet stránok 302
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name* No bard embalms and sanftifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, • Is cold... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - Počet stránok 350
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Oar claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, , . And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names... | |
 | 1851 - Počet stránok 592
...on Friday, the 6th of October, 1536, to be put to death, " In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies." Before leaving the castle, he delivered a letter to the keeper, addressed either to Mr. or Mrs. Poyntz,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - Počet stránok 300
...skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven; Their ashes flew — No marble...history, so warm on meaner themes, <:•; Is cold op this. She execrates indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to -the fire, : But gives the glorious... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - Počet stránok 234
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation to the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To -walk with...anticipate the skies. » Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecutions dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 212
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed" In confirmation of the noblest claim.... Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...liv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew... No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard... | |
 | 1810 - Počet stránok 548
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. COWPER. BISHOP HOOPER. JOHN HOOPER student and graduate in the University of Oxford, after the study... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 404
...fame, And chas'd them up to Heav'n. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name* No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history,...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise*. He is the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - Počet stránok 228
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with...anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them. They Hv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew... | |
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