 | United States - 1844 - 698 pages
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 | Davies Gilbert - Cornwall (England : County) - 1838 - 490 pages
...biography Mr. Whitaker, carried away by imagination and feeling, has wasted the powers of his mind to u make the worse appear the better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels," in an elaborate and learned effort to vindicate the character of one among the most unprincipled... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven; he seeurd uo For dignity compos'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 Maturest counsels... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 536 pages
...example of that species of greatness typified by Milton in the person of Belial, in Pandemonium ; " He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. But...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 572 pages
...example of that species of greatness typified by Milton in the person of Belial, in Pandemonium ; " He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. But...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels ; for his thoughts were lota; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...colouring, but is entirely destitute of the agreeable taste of the real cherry. DECEPTION. He seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow. MILTON. A villain, when he most seems kind, Is most to be suspected. LANSDOWN. Thou hast prevaricated... | |
 | Spirit - 1840 - 406 pages
...point of fact. How does this remind us of Belial, in Milton's poem : • He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow : though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Such a course needs no comment. It... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
