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, or change his constant... Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives - Page 146by Samuel Neil - 1865 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1909 - 500 pages
...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, or change his constant mind, Though single.... | |
| 1826 - 644 pages
...principles. ' — I 'nil iii ul 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, or change his constant mind, Tho' single.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 pages
...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... | |
| 1826 - 642 pages
...to his principles. ' 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, or change his constant, mind, Tho' single.... | |
| Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 532 pages
...Paradise Lost: . . . Faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he: Among the innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. E. His Troth Allied to the virtue just considered is that of trueness, representing fidelity, conformity... | |
| David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pages
...circumstances would make martyrs.22 The faithful Abdiel could serve as an emblem of constancy: "Nor number, nor example with him wrought / To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind / Though single" (v.901- 3). Noah, like many of the Protestant martyrs celebrated by Foxe, admonishes... | |
| Mark Harris - 1992 - 432 pages
...reread John Milton on the faithful Abdiel: Among the faithless, faithful. 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, or change his constant mind though single.... | |
| Tetsuji Yamamoto - 1998 - 896 pages
...Abdiel (Paradise Lost,V, 897-903): "Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among the innumerable false, unmoved Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example with his wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single."... | |
| Mary Soames - 2001 - 772 pages
...eat it, but otherwise he remains like the seraph Abdiel4 in Paradise Lost. 'Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal.' A fine moral lesson to the baser breed of man! I was sitting down last night to eat my New Year's Eve... | |
| John N. King - 2000 - 262 pages
...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. (5.896-9oo) Abdiel's fervency attests to his distinguishing attribute of zeal (5.8o5, 849), which accords... | |
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