 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,...  The Spectator - Page 102edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, 1'iuhaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd Hit loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 909 Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd Long way through hostile scorn, w-hich he sustamM, Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; 90S And with retorted... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 398 pages
...faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number nor example...constant mind. Though single. From amidst them forth he pasVd, Long way thro' hostile scorn, which he suitain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught; And,... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 704 pages
...faithful only he : Among innumerable false, uniuov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example,...truth, or change his constant mind Though single. • Methinks your lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
 | John Talwyn Shewell - 1808 - 50 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, nor example,...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... | |
 | Thomas Coke - 1808 - 476 pages
...threatening sword, remained in his station, — " Among the faithless, faithful only he; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought." Though surrounded by dangers on every side, his vigour increased as the fortitude of his colleagues... | |
 | 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...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought ; And with retorted... | |
 | 1809 - 344 pages
...faithful only he— Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unscduc'd, nnterrifyd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. Nor number, nor example...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
...faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example,...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superiour, 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...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain 'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought ; And with retorted... | |
 | Hannah More - 1810 - 220 pages
...faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unsednc'd, nnterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example,...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... | |
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