 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; no A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ;...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash 1 15 Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; ho seem'd For dignily compos'd, , To sell him for six hundred pound. "Had he but spar'd his tongue and appeal The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low, To vice... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - Universalism - 1841 - 360 pages
...fell off to infidelity he drew scores, not a few, with him into that vortex. , " His tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." When his star was in the zenith, he published a volume of ' Lectures' which were then regarded... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. 28 CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 552 pages
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. 28 CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Thomas Quarles - Foulsham (England) - 1842 - 196 pages
..."John de Foulsham was so deeply versed in syllogistical reasoning," says his enraptured biographer,— his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, "that he could turn black into white, and men into asses!" Bale, however, shortly after this excess... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1870 - 972 pages
...enemy of the sluggard. You cannot cajole her out of her good gifts. The artful sophist may sometimes " Make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." But such arts are thrown away on sharp sighted nature. If yon would plant you must take... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 448 pages
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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... 
