...is the seed of the Church, called fervently upon a God of wrath to punish and remember : Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...cold — Even them who kept Thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not! In Thy book record their groans, Who...

...kills reason itself.130 In On the Late Massacre in Piedmont, 1655, Milton wrote: John Mifton Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget...

...accusation could be brought but that of steadfast adherence to their religious convictions — " Avenge, 0 Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold " — he meant, perhaps, not only those superior Alps which overlook Switzerland, but those wherever...

...angered by a recent political massacre, he employs the sonnet form for an unexpected subject: Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered...cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who...

...Talking to God is almost always praise or prayer. Or, as in Milton's sonnet, an urgent request: Avenge O Lord thy slaughtered saints whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold . . . (MILTON, "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont") For the Romantic poets, apostrophe and personification...

...self-commanding, magnificent Animality is the <temper> make for poets & artists, it seems to me. 36 'Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold' ('On the late Massacre in Piedmont', 1655). For Ruskin's positive comments see 12.139, 35^, and Lancaster...

...folly or for the slightest gain in wisdom? Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly (1511) 16 Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. John Milton, On the late Massacre in Piedmont (1645) 17 Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints,...

...persecutions of the Duke of Savoy (immortalized in the words of the English poet, Milton: Avenge oh Lord thy slaughtered saints whose bones lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold') so that today the Waldensians and Methodists (united since 1989) count some thirty thousand members....

...Milton, whose indignant sonnet is one of the greatest in the language. It runs as follows: "Avenge, O Lord, Thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them 'who kept Thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget...

...has interpreted in his sublime sonnet : — ' ' Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose hones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were...