 | 1833 - 484 sider
...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 reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. " On the occasion we speak of, Belial rose * Alluding to the discomfiture of the Armada,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 sider
...seem'd 110 For dignity compos'd, 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: 115 To vice industrious , but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful;... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 422 sider
...seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit, But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped 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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 sider
...seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit: Bnt all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; ror his thoughts were low — To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 sider
...graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven; he seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...the worse appear The better reason , to perplex and dasli Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low; » 1ère , quand le Fouet inexorable et l'heure... | |
 | Hannah More - 1836 - 452 sider
...seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit ; Put all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped manna, 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 Timorous and... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 sider
...graceful and humane : A fairer person Jost not heaven; he seem'd. For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...appear The better reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low; » 1ère , quand le Fouet inexorable et l'heure de » la torture... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 sider
...and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven; he seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : Rut 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; . 1ère , quand le Fouet inexorable et l'heure de v... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 sider
...and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven; he seeurd uo For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts wer,e low ; ne To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | Davies Gilbert - 1838 - 490 sider
...biography Mr. Whitaker, carried away by imagination and feeling, has wasted the powers of his mind to u make the worse appear the better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels," in an elaborate and learned effort to vindicate the character of one among the most unprincipled... | |
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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... 
