 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 ページ
...the pursuit of knowledge, instead of abating with age, seem rather to have gathered strength : — ' Nor number, nor example with him wrought To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.' He knew himself by inward calling, — these are his own words, — to be fitter to hold a book than... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1835 - 592 ページ
...hero of the middle ages was no timeserver, no slave to human respect, when justice was at stake — " Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single." How noble and heroic does the justice arising from the principles of religion appear when contrasted... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1836 - 392 ページ
...Milton — ' faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmoved ; Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...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 - 1836 - 452 ページ
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 462 ページ
...Cardiphonia." Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor numher, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single." " Methinks your Lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has placed Abdiel.... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 ページ
...seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd. Long vay through hostile scorn ; which he sustain'd » dépouillé... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 ページ
...seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn ; which he sustained Supérieur, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 ページ
...the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unlerrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long vay through hostile scorn ; which he sustain'd » dépouillé... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1838 - 300 ページ
...Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept,...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he passed, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained Superior, nor... | |
 | 1838 - 586 ページ
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd Superiour, nor... | |
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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,... 
