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 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd lie For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Ivlaturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...withal, in his voice and in his manner; * 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 Coxmse!,-but his thoughts were loWj' To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds u :••>'• ' Timorous... | |
 | Children - 530 pages
...in the striking lines of our poet: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, he could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels ; for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, hut to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Heav'n ; he seem'd 110 tor dignny compos'd and high explon : But all was false and hollow ; though bis tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he pleas'd the ear, And with... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...th' other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit ;...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matured counsels, for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Tim'imis and... | |
 | Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 220 pages
...he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : . :. " Bat all was false and hollow ; though bis tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 446 pages
...de- * traders, is the purveyor of fraud, and the pander of delusion. Her tongue drops manna, but to make the worse appear the better reason ; to perplex and dash maturest counsels. She fills the trump of glory with the venal blast of adulation, and binds the wreath of honor around... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...exploit : But all was false and hollow; though his tongw Dropt manna, and could make the worse appeal The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts » ere low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he pleas'd the ear,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1810 - 466 pages
...detracters, is the purveyor of fraud, and the pander of delusion. Her tongue drops manna, but to make j the worse appear the better reason ; to perplex and dash maturest counsels. She fills the trump of glory with the venal blast of adulation, and binds the wreath of honor around... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - English fiction - 1811 - 418 pages
...Upon 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 The better reason, to perplex and dr-li Maturest counsels . for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious : but to nobler deeds Tim'rous... | |
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