 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 lehte
...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 — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his... | |
 | 1858 - 778 lehte
...zeal, i to awaken proper veneration for VOL. IXXYI. the noble army of English martyrs, many of whom "lived unknown, till persecution dragged them into fame, and chased them up to heaven." It was a common custom in ancient times for men to go forth on pilgrimage to places hallowed by religious... | |
 | 1825 - 618 lehte
...which the world bestowson some of its best benefactors. - — Few remember them. They lived 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 lehte
...walk with God, to be 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. Then- ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his... | |
 | 1832 - 534 lehte
...hierarchy. Of many of these witnesses for the truth in these- times, it may be said — -" They liv'd unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctities his song,... | |
 | Robert Pollok - 1829 - 156 lehte
...claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free. Yet few remember them. They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew —No marble tells us whither." COWPER. FOUR years of suffering had now passed since... | |
 | 1832 - 460 lehte
...his memory is embalmed, in the productions of his youth, as the vindicator of the Covenanters. " They lived unknown, Till persecution dragged them into fame, And chased them up to heaven." HAPPY HOURS with MAMMA. W. OLIPHANT, Edinburgh. P. p. 232. 1833. IN the preface it is stated — "... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 lehte
...with God, to be 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 ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 lehte
...walk with God, to be 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 ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their name No bard embalms and sanctifies his... | |
 | 1834 - 220 lehte
...with God, to be 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." Meanwhile, the beautiful being who had been rescued from the jaws of destruction by Harold and his... | |
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Yet few remember them. They lived unknown Till persecution dragged them into fame And chased them up to heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song ; And history, so warm on meaner... 
