 | British poets - 1822 - 302 sider
...seem'd Por dignity composed, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 sider
...dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd mauna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash tt*~\f£ Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, hut to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | 1823 - 582 sider
...often room for debate; and it is one of the most ancient and usual employments of oratory . ; . to make the worse appear . ,. . , , The better reason, to perplex and dash Mat'urest counsels. In the next place, the people have, in alt ages and nations, been suspected of a tendency... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd 110 For dignity corapos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow : though his tongue Dropp'd...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low: 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sider
...curse thy charms for pleasing him, And blush at conquest ? Havard's King Charles 1. His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 2. Oft the hours From morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away, While... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt ith woe. Ah ! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge ? Las counsels : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 sider
...behaviour and conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton : — - His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious : but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 874 sider
...behaviour and conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton :— His tongue Dropt raanna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious : but to nobler deeds Tim'roui... | |
 | 1824 - 496 sider
...book of the Paradise Lost : " But all is false and hollow ; tho' their tongue " Drop manna ; and can make the worse appear " The better reason, to perplex and dash " Maturest councils ; yet their thoughts are low, " To vice industrious ; but to nobler deeds «• Tim'rous and... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 sider
...seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit ; But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General was really disclaimed, why... | |
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On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better... 
