 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...present Before the seat supreme ; from whence a voice, From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; And... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...present Before the scat supreme; from wiiencc av,ice, From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was hcaid, " ' Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hnst mamtam'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in aims ;... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...seat supreme; from whence a voice, From 'midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard: Servant of Goo, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain' d Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arm*; And... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
..."' Servant of God, well dom>; well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd SB Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in...to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care SS To stand approv'd in sight of God, though worlds Judg'd thee perverse: the easier conquest now Remains... | |
 | Alethea Lewis - 1814 - 318 pages
...ANONTMOUS. Quarterly Review. " Servant of God. well done I Well hast thou fought; And for the test'mony of truth hast borne Universal reproach. far worse to bear Than violence ; this was all thy care. To staid approv'd in sight of God, thongh worlds 1 ' Jndg'd thee perverse."... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...fonght The hetter fight, who single hast maintain'd 3A Agaiast revolted mnltitndes the canse Of trnth, in word mightier than they in arms; And for the testimony' of trnth hast horne Universal reproach, far worse to hear 7'han violence; for this was all thy care 34... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...present Before the seat supreme ; from whence a voice From midst a goMeri cloud thus mild was heard. " ' Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought^ The better fight, who single hast maintain'd 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ;... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Before the seat supreme ; from whence a voice, From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard. " ' own tingle hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...25 Before the seat supreme; from whence a voice From midst a golden cloud thus mild was heard. " ' Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms; And... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 468 pages
...and check the " grave rebuke" of offended morality ? Is there none, like Abdiel, to maintain amidst " revolted multitudes" • the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms? Pythagoras, Plato, and Lycurgus, were undoubtedly too sesevere in considering poets even as the unintentional... | |
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Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms... 
