 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
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...Desperate revenge, and battle dangerous To less than gods. On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane. A fairer person lost not Heaven...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low — To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful. Yet he... | |
 | Martin Roth - 1968 - 142 pages
...Witt Clinton. Armstrong was related by marriage to both Chancellor Livingston and Thomas Tillotson. 82 But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleas'd... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 pages
...Belial, as in Paradise Lost. being set great atore by for their power of eloquent dissimulation, since his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...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, resembles... | |
 | Leonard Mustazza - 1988 - 188 pages
...in Milton's description of Belial: A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seem'd 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; To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleas'd... | |
 | Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 pages
...application. After the 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 pages
...Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd 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;. . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent thus began.... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...composed, the altar prepared, and but the torch wanting for his apotheosis, like his own Belial, vhose tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels — comes this avowed enemy, to forbid the rites, and oppose the claim — Of Johnson, from his great... | |
 | Alison Hickey - 1997 - 268 pages
...be wrought 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...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest Counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he pleas'd... | |
 | Professor Michael F Bernard-Donals, Michael F. Bernard-Donals, Richard R. Glejzer - 1998 - 492 pages
...Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seem'd 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; . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent thus began.... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 2003 - 382 pages
...11.108-118, Belial is the most plausible of Satan's followers: On the other side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not heaven:...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 day of... | |
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