 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...The sweets of liberty and equal laws; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. — Yet few remember them ! They lived unknown, Till- Persecution dragged them into fame, And chased... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...The sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But murlyn struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more . Grigg Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood ia shed In confirmation of the noblest claim — 720 Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To §oar, and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown, Till persecution dragg'd... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, 15 And win it, with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies ! ÎÏ) Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown. Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 812 pages
...recompense — But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shad In confirmation of the noblest claim,— Our claim...divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 580 pages
...recompense — But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shud In confirmation of the noblest claim, — Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk wiih God, to be divinely free, To soar and to anticipate the skies. Yet few remember them. -With their... | |
 | John Scott - Reformation - 1833 - 384 pages
...Adam, " God brought to light 10 his church thoee moat essential doctrines which raped " Their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim...DIVINELY free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies." We have given some account of the writings of Luthej as far as the end of the year 1541. His principal... | |
 | Scottish literature - 1834 - 220 pages
...the name of the "Whigs' Graves." - their blood was shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Their claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God,...divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies, — Yet few remember them. They lived unknown. Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...sweets of liberty and equal laws ; But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest...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... | |
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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. 
