 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, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 179by William Hayley - 1810Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 772 pages
...faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified — Hi* loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind." MC THE BOOK OF RUTH: ITS SPIRIT AND DESIGN. (From the German of Dr. FWC Umbreit.) * * * IF we but expound... | |
 | 1839 - 702 pages
...to the world and its pursuits ; but he was firm, " Unshaken, unsrduced, unterriSed, His steadiness he kept ! his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example...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
...the faithless, faithful only he, Among innumerable false, unraovM, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number,...Long way through hostile scorn, 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... | |
 | John Newton - 1814 - 318 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number,...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
...constancy and adherence to principle, in his description of Abdiel, " Unshaken, unseduced, unterrifi'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number,...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 "... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 602 pages
...the Rubicon was now passed ; Among innumerable raise, immuv'd, Unshaken, nnseduc'd, unterrify'd, Hu Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal ; Nor number,...constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pais'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior— — MILTON. How determinalely... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he; Among initumeiable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, untemfy'd; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal: Nor number...single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way thro' hostile scorn, which he sustained t Superior^ nor of violence fear'd anght; And, with retorted... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...unseduc'd, unterrined, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with liim , Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And, with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd On those proud... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrificd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number,...Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And, with retorted scorn, his back he tnrn'd On those proud... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Longway through hostile scorn ; which he sustain'd Superior, nor of violence fear'd aught ; And, with... | |
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