 | 1833 - 546 pagine
...composed and high 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." On the occasion we speak of, Belial rose with a smile in which it Was difficult to perceive whether... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pagine
...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 : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
 | 1823 - 582 pagine
...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 to take the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pagine
...compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge ? Las : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pagine
...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 : yet... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pagine
...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 mute... | |
 | 1824 - 496 pagine
...book of the Paradise Lost : " But all is false and hollow ; tho' their tongue " Drop manna ; and can make the worse appear " The better reason, to perplex and dash " Maturest councils ; yet their thoughts are low, " To vice industrious ; but to nobler deeds «• Tim'rous and... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pagine
...slyest introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any of those speeches which are calculated to " make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts are low." I am perfectly aware, Sir, by whom that s was added. I know the handwriting.... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pagine
...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 councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General was really disclaimed, why... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagine
...eompos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and eould eounsels : for his thoughts were low, To viee industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
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On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed 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... 
