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,... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 127by John Milton - 1899 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 220 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unsednc'd, nnterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...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
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd. No.... | |
| Thomas Coke - Haiti - 1811 - 560 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, nnseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number nor example with him wrought 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... | |
| Mr. Harrison (Ralph) - English language - 1812 - 118 pages
...loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal i Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, nor change his constant mind Though single. From amidst...scorn, which he sustain'd, Superior, nor of violence feared aught i And, with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction... | |
| Thomas Gilbank Ackland - 1812 - 222 pages
...poterat. TACITUS. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; • Unmov'd, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. -.' MILTOS. HARK ! 'tis the bell of death! with solemn swell Slowly it beats, Fate's awful news to... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought ; 905 And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud towVs to swift destruction doom'd.... | |
| Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...; but he was firm, " Unshaken, unsrduced, unterriSed, His steadiness he kept ! his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind." And why was he firm ? The principle of grace was fixed in his heart : this was the main-spring of his... | |
| Salomon Gessner - 1814 - 678 pages
...innumerable false, unraovM, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought; And with retorted scorn his back he tnrn'd On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd."... | |
| John Newton - 1814 - 318 pages
...innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind Though single. Methinks your Lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
| 1828 - 498 pages
...description of Abdiel, " Unshaken, unseduced, unterrifi'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind." You intimate a fear that by refusing to join in the pleasures referred to, may give your friends "... | |
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