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 ... - Seite 317von David Simpson - 1809 - 393 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1909 - 502 Seiten
...; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor example with him wrought...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 - 1826 - 644 Seiten
...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. From amidst them forth he passed.' To trace minutely the influence of Burke as an orator... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1970 - 372 Seiten
...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 - 1990 - 308 Seiten
...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 - 1992 - 432 Seiten
...faithful. Among innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified his loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; nor number, nor example with him wrought...constant mind though single. From amidst them forth he passed, long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained superior, nor of violence feared aught;... | |
| Tetsuji Yamamoto - 1998 - 896 Seiten
...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." We see in Milton's conscience the stance of aloneness of Hamlet's soliloquy's — Abdiel or Hamlet... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1084 Seiten
...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...which he 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.... | |
| Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 330 Seiten
...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...which 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.... | |
| B. A. Ramsbottom - 2003 - 364 Seiten
..."Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love and zeal, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought, To...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,... | |
| F. Washington Jarvis - 2010 - 372 Seiten
...innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; JVbr number nor example with him wrought To swerve from...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. If we set out as pilgrims — often seemingly alone — to live such a life, we will surely encounter... | |
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