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
| Jews - 1926 - 540 pages
...false, unmoved, | Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, I " His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; | Nor number, nor example, with him wrought | " To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind | " Tho' single." Par. Lost, ver. 897. | By the Rev. EN Carvalho, | Minister of the Congregation 5ШВ"... | |
| Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve...constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he passed, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained Superior, nor of violence feared aught;... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1826 - 644 pages
...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, or change his constant mind, Tho' single. From amidst them forth he passed.' To trace minutely the influence of Burke as an orator... | |
| William Wordsworth - Literary Criticism - 1970 - 372 pages
...depicting under the figure of Abdiel his own position at the Restoration, insists on the same point: Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though tingle. PJ,. v. 901-3. well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintaind Against revolted... | |
| David Loewenstein, James Turner - History - 1990 - 308 pages
...different circumstances would make martyrs.22 The faithful Abdiel could serve as an emblem of constancy: "Nor number, nor example with him wrought / To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind / Though single" (v.901- 3). Noah, like many of the Protestant martyrs celebrated by Foxe, admonishes the wicked "fearless... | |
| Mark Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 432 pages
...innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified his loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; nor number, nor example with him wrought to swerve...constant mind though single. From amidst them forth he passed, long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained superior, nor of violence feared aught;... | |
| John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal; 900 Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve...sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught; 905 And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud Tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd. The... | |
| John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal; 900 Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve...sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught; 905 And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd On those proud Tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd. The... | |
| Sharon Achinstein - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 330 pages
...Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal; Nor number, nor example of him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant...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. (5:896-906)... | |
| B. A. Ramsbottom - Baptists - 2003 - 364 pages
...innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love and zeal, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought, To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single." In handling experience, into which he seemed more particularly led during the latter years of his life,... | |
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