...of the Church of Lyons, pp 31, 32. of the saints of the most high, by Papal emissaries, exclaim : " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n they who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones, Forget...

...'Milton — accursed bo his blasphemous memory ! ' But Milton was a Protestant, and had written : ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold!' The Creator and the Creature is a book with a comprehensive purpose, prolix at times in multitudinous...

...however desperate the effort, to dispute or to delay the advance of the crusaders. CHAPTER VI. Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, who rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. — MILTON. WE have...

...the dreadful persecution, of which I have been speaking, that Milton wrote the following sonnet. " Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold : E'en them, who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget...

...the State letters to the Duke of Savoy, and penned the immortal sonnet beginning with the lines : — "Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains oold ! '' In these matters I say we have a right to interfere, and that not only on grounds of humanity,...

...massacre of the Protestants in Piemont may be applied, with a slight anachronism, to these martyrs. ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Scottish mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, Forget not.' The result of this...

...they sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow men. Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ! was the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred...

...in view the words of the prophet, — that higher inspiration which no poetry alone can ever reach. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, E'en them that kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget...

...creatures have they sheltered in their stony bosoms, from the weapons and tortures of their fellow men. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold! was the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred bulwarks...

...contemporary themes, since the breath ceased that uttered that tremendous imprecation — ' Avenge, oh Lord ! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold !' — we say loftier than almost any, for we cannot forget Mr. Southey's ' Ode, written during the...