...behalf. The following touching sonnet which he wrote on the occasion, will show how he felt for them. "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 worshiped stocks and stones, Forget...

...they sheltered in their stony bosoms from the weapons and tortures of their fellow-men ! Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ! •as the burning exclamation of Milton's agonized and indignant spirit, as he beheld those sacred...

...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...

...Rich. HI., i. 3. Ant. For when I am revenged upon my charm I have done all Ant. and Chop., IT. 10. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. MILTON. ' Soimcti.' but his face He, who by wilful disesteem of life And proud insensibility to hope...

...surveying the butchery of the saints of the Most High, by Papal emissaries, exclaim, — Avenge, О Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; liv'u they who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,...

...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...

...that the word " slain"1 is not used in the sense of slaughtered, as in Milton's sonnet — " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ;" but it is used rather in the sense of the Irish word " kilt." Even in their slain state, they can...

...Where, side by side, they dwelt apart, In the quiet homestead of the heart. A VOICE FROM PIEDMONT. " Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine Mountains cold." Milton—Sonnet on the Massacres in Piedmont. BEND from that Heaven, whose visioned glories gave, ....

...by side, they dwelt apart, In the quiet homestead of the heart. A VOICE FROM PIEDMONT. " Avenge, 0 Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine Mountains cold." Milton — Sonnet on the Massacres in Piedmont. BEND from that Heaven, whose visioned glories gave,...

...contemporary themes, since the breath ceased which 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...