 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 British Essayists: Spectator - Page 69by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1845 - 670 pages
...before that man, hat in hand." And if, amid the host of the foolish and corrupt, there appeared any " Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified ;" he was secure of Arnold's exulting sympathy, and as "he... | |
 | Lady Catharine Long - 1847 - 596 pages
...for one moment, then, kissing the hand she had held out to him, turned, and was gone. CHAPTER II. " 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... | |
 | Hill Dawe Wickham - Waldenses - 1847 - 264 pages
...air of surrounding superstition; unawed by persecution ; unswerving though standing alone : — like the seraph Abdiel, " faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 414 pages
...let me recommend the most animated picture of a righteous singularity that ever was delineated, in The seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshalcen, unseduced; unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love and zeal; Nor NUMBERS nor... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 446 pages
...Prophecy concerning Rousseau. ••>' VOL. II. 16 Now turn to the artless, upright, and unsophisticated Abdiel, Faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified; • • His loyalty he kept, bis love, his zeal. Nor number... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...devouring fire. Then, who created thee lamenting learn, When, who can uncreate thee, thou shall know.' " So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among...faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...devouring fire. Then who created thee lamenting learn, When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know. 000 So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable falue, unmoved, Unshaken, unreduced, untorrifieel, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 905 Nor... | |
 | Henry Welsford - English language - 1848 - 498 pages
...passages of this sort, one of the finest of which is devoted to the celebration of the virtue of Abdiel. " So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumcrate false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal."... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...as the character which is given us of him denotes that generous scorn and intrepidity which attends heroic virtue. The author doubtless designed it as...faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number, nor... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence. 1683 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vi. Line 29 Faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only...Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterritied His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To... | |
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