 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 - Side 151av William Cowper - 1802Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 362 sider
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is fhed In confirmation of the nobleft claim— 3ur claim to feed upon immortal Truth, To' walk with God, to be divinely free, 9 fbar, and to anticipate the fkies 1 Yet few remember them. They liv'd unknown Till perfecution dragg'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805 - 376 sider
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is flied In confirmation of the nobleft claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To foar, and to anticipate the fkies. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till perfecution dragged... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 sider
...brighter prize, And win it with more pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation to 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 persecutions dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 sider
...noblest claim, , . Our claim to feed upon imrnortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely fee, , 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 ashes flew... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 sider
...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,...ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name* No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.... | |
 | 1810 - 548 sider
...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. COWPER. BISHOP HOOPER. JOHN HOOPER student and graduate in the University of Oxford, after the study... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 sider
...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 Hv'd unknown Till persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them up to heav'n. Their ashes flew... | |
 | 1825 - 618 sider
...unkown^. Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes Hew, — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard...embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so worm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She exeerates, indeed, The tyranny that doom'cl them to the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 496 sider
...pain. Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Onr claim to feed npon immortal trnth. To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies. Vet few remember them. They liv'd nnknown, Till Persecntion dragg'd them into fame, And chas'd them... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 sider
...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,...unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And ehas'd them up to Heav'n. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their nam?s "No bard... | |
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