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, or change his constant... The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page xxixby Edmund Burke - 1835Full view - About this book
| Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...old schoolfellow Alfred, he had stood firm against the temptations with which he was surrounded. " His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single" . Ah, but that was the objection, the stumbling-block, to Herbert — single. He would... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number...To swerve 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,... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...Among the faidiless, faithful only he ; ' Among innumerable false, unmov'd, ' Unshaken, unsediiced, unterrified, ' His loyalty he kept, his love, his...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, • Though single.' I own, and I rejoice to sec, that there are some noble exceptions to the general... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, umnov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal : Nor number,...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 704 pages
...faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, uniuov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number,...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind Though single. • Methinks your lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet... | |
| John Talwyn Shewell - 1808 - 50 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrify'd, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal: Nor number,...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. Though single. Awfully lovv'ring, as with tempests fraught; Thy fears now all are hush'd, and ev'ry... | |
| Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...faithless, faithful only he— Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unscduc'd, nnterrifyd ; His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal. Nor number,...To swerve from 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... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...thou shalt know. So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd,...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd, Long way through hostile scorn, which he sustain'd... | |
| John Newton - Church history - 1810 - 688 pages
...found Among the faithless, faithful only he : Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unscduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. Methinks your lordship's situation particularly resembles that in which the poet has... | |
| Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 220 pages
...the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unsednc'd, nnterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number,...To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single. BOOK v. ' v But it is not from these descriptions, just and striking as they are, that... | |
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