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
| Eneas Mackenzie - 1834 - 502 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unscduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or sway his constant mind. Though single." Bishopton, after the above transaction, continued in the possession... | |
| James Service - Legends - 1834 - 162 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;...example, with him wrought, To swerve from truth, or sway his constant mind, Though single." THE LEGEND OF PERCY'S CROSS. " FAIR morn betide thee, sire... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - Durham (England : County) - 1834 - 482 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or sway his constant mind, Though single." Bishopton, after the above transaction, continued in the possession... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...ultimately gave peace to the world. Like the faithful seraph, so admirably painted by the poet, he stood " out of the power of fortune. What is to come, is in wiser hands [pass'd Though smgle. From amidst them, forth ho Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 460 pages
...Faithful Found Among the faithless, faithful only he, Among innumerable false, unmov'd, * " Cardiphonia." Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...truth, or change his constant mind Though single." " Methinks your Lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 464 pages
...Faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he, Among innumerable false, unmov'd, * " Cardiphonia." Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...truth, or change his constant mind Though single." " Methinks your Lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 82 pages
...164I/ THE LIFE ANDREW MARVEL'L " Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number,...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single." MllTON. ANDREW MARVELL. IT is the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons.... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - 1835 - 78 pages
...1835. THE LIFE ANDREW MARVELL " Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, To loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal, Nor number, nor...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single." MILTON. ANDREW MARVELL. IT is the privilege of posterity to adjust the characters of illustrious persons.... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1836 - 392 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmoved ; Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.' Paradise Lost, Book V. Perhaps in this very thing, God is applying the touchstone to your character... | |
| Hannah More - English literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...faithless, faithful only be Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrined ; ' ' His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. Nor number...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. Book V. But it is not from these descriptions, just and striking as they are, that their characters... | |
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