So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth,... Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes - Page 145by John Milton - 1853Full view - About this book
| John Talwyn Shewell - 1808 - 50 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal: Nor number,...truth, or change his constant mind. Though single. Awfully lovv'ring, as with tempests fraught; Thy fears now all are hush'd, and ev'ry pang, Of time... | |
| David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...only'he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd umerrify'd, His loyalty he kept, hisiove his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought...Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought ; And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud... | |
| 1809 - 344 pages
...faithless, faithful only he— Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unscduc'd, nnterrifyd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. Nor number,...truth, or change his constant mind Though single. BOOK V. But it is not from these descriptions, just and striking as they are, that their characters... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...On those proud towers to swift destruction doom'd. 907 OF THE FIFTH BOOK. N2 THE SIXTH BOOK OF PAKABISE LOST. THE ARGUMENT. Raphael continues to relate... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrifyM; His loyality he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way thro' hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And, with retorted... | |
| David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd. Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeaf; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve...he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain 'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought ; And with retorted scorn his back lie tuni'd On... | |
| John Newton - 1810 - 688 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unscduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. Methinks your lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 220 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unsednc'd, nnterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number,...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. BOOK v. ' v But it is not from these descriptions, just and striking as they are, that their characters... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number,...Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud... | |
| Thomas Coke - 1811 - 560 pages
...like the Seraph Abdiel, stood " Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, nnseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind." This man, whose writings have immortalized his own virtues, and the infamy of his countrymen, by endeavouring... | |
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