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They lived unknown , Till persecution dragg'd 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 ...
They lived unknown , Till persecution dragg'd 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 ...
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| Title | The Protestant vindicator; or, A refutation of the calumnies ... in [W.] Cobbett's History of the Reformation |
| Author | Robert Oxlad |
| Published | 1826 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Mar 2006 |
| Length | 80 pages |
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