 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1865 - 310 pages
...forsake, and who wilt not forget, Come quickly — or take us to Thee ! Thomas Dale. LXXII. MARTYRDOM. O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...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... | |
 | John Brown - Bible - 1866 - 228 pages
...awful sufferings for conscience' sake, from generation to generation, led our own Milton to pray, — " Avenge, O Lord. Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not. Their martyred blood and ashes sow O'er all the Italian fields,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...attendance, no regard, no duty ? Where is the foolish knave I sent before ? Sh. Tam. 8. iv. 2. WALDENSES. Avenge, O Lord! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not. MMon, Son. 1S. WALKING-STICKS. Let beaux their canes with... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 396 pages
...a religious channel we may conceive of him pouring out his soul in the noble words of Milton:— " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...that did gain A power, must it maintain. 120 Andrew Marvell. Civ ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIE MO NT. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans 5 Who were thy sheep, and... | |
 | James Birchall - 1870 - 532 pages
...sign it till the French court had procured from the Duke of Savoy the restoration of the Vaudois * Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, "When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their gruans "Who were thy sheep, and... | |
 | 1870 - 464 pages
...took first their rise, thither at last must flow. Abraham Cowley. c1x ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEMONT. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans 5 Who were thy sheep, and... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - History - 1871 - 426 pages
...They were the faithful ones to whom Milton makes such stirring reference in his thirteenth Sonnet: — "Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered Saints, whose bones...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 Pratt Breed - Presbyterianism - 1872 - 252 pages
...sorrows at one time thrilled all Europe and drew from Milton's sublime pen the noted adjuration : x " Avenge, O Lord ! thy slaughtered saints whose bones...sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills,... | |
 | John Foxe - 1872 - 760 pages
...It was with reference to this persecution that Milton wrote the following well-known sonnet : — " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...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... | |
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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 worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep,... 
