 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 God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.  Poems - Page 151by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...life, and happy death," whose blood was shod In confirmation of tho noblest claim. Their claim to food upon Immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the sldos. Christianity was not established by law until the fourth century, and yet our critic (who talks... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon eternal truth, To walk with God, to he divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their asiles... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed I n confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till perseeution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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 God,...anticipate the skies ! Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chas'd them up to heaven. Their ashes flew—-... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (DD.) - 1839 - 688 pages
...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 God,...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. COWPEH. BISHOP HOOPER. Jonx HOOPER student and graduate in the university of Oxford, after the study... | |
 | 1839 - 678 pages
...person sunk under the burden, and died there also." He died, " 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 antieipate the skies : Yet few remember him." COWPER. Those who wish for a more extended account of... | |
 | Protestant association - 1840 - 302 pages
...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 God,...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Jet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame. And chased them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...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 God,...unknown, Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, 725 And chas'd them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names... | |
 | John Ross Macduff - 1841 - 214 pages
...CHAPTER IV. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew, No marble tells us whither. With...embalms and sanctifies his song, And history, so warm on other themes, Is cold on this ! COWPER. ON the 16th of August, 1689, in the depths of a forest, which... | |
 | 1852 - 590 pages
...testimony of Jesus Christ." " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — Our'claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies." Honour to the memory of those who earnestly contended, and courageously died for the truth in that... | |
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