 | John Gordon Lorimer - 1841 - 648 pages
...massacre that Milton wrote the well known and beautiful lines : — " Avenge, O Lord, thy ilaughtered 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 not. In thy book... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...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 their groans, Who were thy sheep, and... | |
 | George Punchard - 1841 - 404 pages
...Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, 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, * The words of pope Innocent III. in his exhortation to the cri*. taders... | |
 | 1875 - 492 pages
...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 ! in Thy book record their groans Who were Thy sheep, and... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 pages
...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 worshipt stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy hook record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...Massacre in Piedmont contains a tremendous malediction on the persecutors of those mountaineer-martyrs, " who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones." Nor must the sonnet on his blindness be overlooked. Though severely simple in style, and remarkably... | |
 | 1843 - 280 pages
...Avenge, O Lord, thy slanghter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our futhers worahipp'd stocks and stouea, Forjret not : in thy hook record their groans Who were thy sheep,... | |
 | 1865 - 820 pages
..."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. " More habitually, however, he sat before us in the aspect of an inquirer,... | |
 | 1858 - 598 pages
...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 stone*. Forget not : in thy book record their groans." DEC., 1858. ART. IV. —... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...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, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
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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... 
