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,... The British Essayists: Spectator - Pagina 69door Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Gilbert Murray - 1927 - 294 pagina’s
...may be merely drifting along the line of least resistance and not daring to take risks. Whereas an Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he, Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, owes much of his value to his bad companions. So in the... | |
| British and foreign sailors' society - 1839 - 378 pagina’s
...of God to man.' Where in all his works do we find such a conception, or such a passage as this — " So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found ! Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among the innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unsednced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his... | |
| 1909 - 502 pagina’s
...devouring fire. Then who created thee lamenting learn When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know.' "So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among...faithless faithful only he ; Among innumerable false unmoved. Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number nor... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pagina’s
...Character which is given us of him denotes that generous Scorn and Intrepidity which attends heroick Virtue. The Author doubtless designed it as a Pattern...their present State of Degeneracy and Corruption. [896-907] Spectator, No. 333 We are now entering upon the Sixth Book of Paradise Lost, in which the... | |
| John N. King - 2000 - 262 pagina’s
...the contemporary idiom of antiformalistic attack on establishmentarian worship in Abdiel's challenge: 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. (5.896-9oo) Abdiel's... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 2002 - 320 pagina’s
...because not positively sanctioned by act of Congress. [CE] 6. See John Milton, Paradise Lost, V, 896-97: "So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, / Among the faithless, faithful only he." TO GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Concord, October 8th 1862. My dear friend, I like Bayard Taylor and his books,... | |
| F. Washington Jarvis - 2010 - 372 pagina’s
...discouragement. In Paradise Loft, Milton writes of the single angel who alone refuses to support Satan: So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among...faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; JVbr number nor... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...devouring fire, Then who created thee lamenting learn, When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know. 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 2eal; 900 Nor number,... | |
| Sharon Achinstein - 2003 - 330 pagina’s
...clearly against the world than in the encomium for the solitary angel with which Milton closes Book Five: So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found. Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal; Nor number, nor example... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pagina’s
...devouring fire. Then who created thee lamenting learn, When who can uncreate thee thou shall know. 895 So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyalty he kept, his Love,... | |
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