 | 1909 - 502 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: for his thoughts were low — To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful.... | |
 | Martin Roth - 1968 - 142 sider
...Chancellor Livingston and Thomas Tillotson. 82 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:... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 sider
...Paradise Lost. being set great atore by for their power of eloquent dissimulation, since his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. It may be said, in passing, that the figure of Belzebub, though to less marked a degree,... | |
 | Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 sider
...dinner at Sinclair's, for example, Clarissa quotes from the conference in Hell: - His tongue Dropt 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 Tim'rous and... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - 2010 - 498 sider
...seem'd 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;. . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 sider
...altar prepared, and but the torch wanting for his apotheosis, like his own Belial, vhose tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels — comes this avowed enemy, to forbid the rites, and oppose the claim — Of Johnson, from... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 sider
...upon who might" (6.352, 355-57); compare the fair Belial, "for dignity compos'd," whose 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:... | |
 | Professor Michael F Bernard-Donals, Michael F. Bernard-Donals, Richard R. Glejzer - 1998 - 492 sider
...seem'd 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; . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent thus... | |
 | Martin Bernal - 2001 - 580 sider
...included. As Emily Vermeule, one of the contributors, quoted Milton's Paradise Lost in reference to me: But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worst appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.17 PROFESSOR LEFKOWITZ'S PREFACE... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 2003 - 382 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 indulging him once, flatter him with the hope she would do it again, till by this means the... | |
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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... 
