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: A Poem in Twelve Books - Side 127af John Milton - 1899 - 372 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
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...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 - 330 sider
...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... | |
 | Turner James Grantham, David Loewenstein, James Turner, James Hrantham Turner - 1990 - 282 sider
...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 - 403 sider
...innumerable false, unmoved, unshaken, unseduced, unterrified his loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; nor number, nor example with him wrought to swerve...constant mind though single. From amidst them forth he passed, long way through hostile scorn, which he sustained superior, nor of violence feared aught;... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 384 sider
...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...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. The... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1059 sider
...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...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. The... | |
 | Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 302 sider
...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...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. (5:896-906)... | |
 | B. A. Ramsbottom - 2003 - 352 sider
...innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love and zeal, Nor number, nor example, with him wrought, To swerve...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. Jarvis - 2010 - 344 sider
...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... | |
 | M. John Cardwell - 2004 - 306 sider
...innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'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. 96 An updated version of an anti-Walpole political fable was printed, which endorsed Pitt's resumption... | |
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