 | 1849 - 614 pagine
...dignity compos'd nnd 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, hut to noble deeds Timorous and slothful; yet he pleased... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 pagine
...compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna,2 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pagine
...composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 560 pagine
...slyest introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any of those speeches which are calculated to c make the worse appear The better reason ; to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts are low.-5 I am perfectly aware, Sir, by whom that s was added. I know the handwriting.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 458 pagine
...composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped 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 he... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pagine
...compos'd , 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 Tim'rous and siothful: yet he pleas'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pagine
...ground, Wags there awhile, and takes his flight for ever. Nat. Lee. His tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Milton. But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it had, with greater ease; And, with its everlasting... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 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; for his thoughts were low: 115 To vice 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... 
