 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...  The New Monthly Magazine - Page 2441833Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd 110 For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts were low; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful; yet... | |
 | 1833 - 546 pages
...seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dfopt manna, and could make the worse appear The better...counsels." On the occasion we speak of, Belial rose with a smile in which it Was difficult to perceive whether it expressed the most refined politeness,... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd 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 : yet... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...side up-rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven : he seem'd Por dignity composed, and high exploit : But all was false...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
 | 1823 - 582 pages
...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 to take the... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, h figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine...! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge ? Las : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...thee, Dost thou not 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...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 mute... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pages
...the whole of his behaviour and conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton : — - His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious : but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful : yet... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...For dignity corapos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow : though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the 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... | |
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