 | English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...these kingdoms. He represents that spirit as he was) afterwards described— " Graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven : he seemed For dignity...exploit. But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dfopt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels."... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...other side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 1822 - 488 pages
...POPE'S HOMER, II. book i. 331. 1 See the character of Belial, Milton, Par. Lost, Book ii. ver. 112. But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt...manna, and could make the worse appear The better cause. and is on many occasions the indication of a great flakid. Several authors have treated of Silence... | |
 | 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... | |
 | English literature - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 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 counsels : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heav'n ; he seem'd no For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ;...tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear / ... _ . ., ^ ,, ., He is in the second book, pursuant to that description, characterized as timorous... | |
 | 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 The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious : but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful... | |
 | 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 The 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... | |
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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... 
