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... Table-talk; or, Original essays - Page 27by William Hazlitt - 1824Full view - About this book
| New elegant extracts - 1823 - 402 pages
...[Heaven ; As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. MILTON. ©n the late JWaaascre in ^ieUmont, 1655. AvENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 406 pages
...it so, [Heaven; As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. ©n tfjt late ,{ttnssMrc in ^pietimont, 1655. AvENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1823 - 470 pages
...[Heaven; As ever in my great Task-Master's eye. MILTON. ffin the late jfStassaere in ^uBmont, 1655. AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...the late Massacre in Piedmont. " 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 book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1823 - 426 pages
...the late. Massacre in Piedmont. " 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 book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...the late Massacre in Piedmont. " 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 book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...by avenging them on their enemies : So Milton anticipated in the following ode on the massacre : ' ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT. ' Avenge, O Lord,...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n 'n, above the starry sphere, Their happy hours in joy and hy worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1825 - 496 pages
...before them. * It was on occasion of this horrible massacre that MILTON wrote the following sonnet: — Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter-d saints, whose bones...cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, i When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans,... | |
| William Stephen Gilly - Piedmont - 1825 - 434 pages
...Avenge, O 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 worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans, Who were thy sheep, and... | |
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