 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 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:... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 sider
...seem'd no 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:... | |
 | Neil Forsyth - 2003 - 398 sider
...the need to warn us, and in advance this time, that 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:... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh - 2003 - 538 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; To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds Timorous and slothful:... | |
 | Juliet Cummins, David Burchell - 2007 - 264 sider
...Baumlin, "The Aristotelian Ethic of Milton's Paradise Regained" Renascence 47(1) (Fall 1994): 41-57. Manna, and could make the worse appear/ The better reason, to perplex and dash/ Maturest Counsels." Lacking both Satan's heroic character and his lingering virtues (PL 2.112-15, 480-85), Belial... | |
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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... 
