The Right Honble. Edmund Burke

by Michele Benedetti, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1775
1791

Scottish National Portrait Gallery EP IV 22.2

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     So spake the fervent Angel; but his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judg'd
Or singular and rash —————————
—————————————————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
Though single. From amidst them forth he pass'd
Long way through hostile scorn which he sustain'd
Superior, nor of violence fear'd ought;
And with retorted scorn his back he turn'd
On those proud tow'rs to swift destruction doom'd.

                                                                             Milton