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,... A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ... - Sivu 317tekijä(t) David Simpson - 1809 - 393 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1839 - 702 sivua
...its pursuits ; 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 sivua
...Among innumerable false, unraovM, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought...fear'd ought; And with retorted scorn his back he tnrn'd On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd." Thus, Novitio, this faithful guardian nobly... | |
| John Newton - 1814 - 318 sivua
...: Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number, nor example, with him wrought...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 sivua
...principle, in his 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 "... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 602 sivua
...; Among innumerable raise, immuv'd, Unshaken, nnseduc'd, unterrify'd, Hu Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal ; Nor number, nor example with him wrought...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 sivua
...he; Among initumeiable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, untemfy'd; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal: Nor number nor example with him wrought...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... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 sivua
...nnterrify,d; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number nor example with him wrought To'swervc from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass,d, 'Long way thro, hostile scorn, which he sustain,d Superior, nor of violence fear,d anght; And, with retorted... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...unseduc'd, unterrined, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with liim , Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown aught ; And, with retorted scorn, his back he turn'd On those proud towers to swift destruction doom'd."... | |
| Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 sivua
...our view. In the midst of a corrupted people, Obadiah preserved his integrity pure and untainted : Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. Promoted to the most honourable department in the state, he debased himself by no mean or servile compliances.... | |
| John Milton - 1820 - 342 sivua
...innumerable false, unniov'd, Unshaken, unsednc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; 900 Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or chi.nge his constant mind, Tho' single. From amidst them forth he past'd, Lone way thro1 hostile scorn... | |
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