 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 756 pages
...For dignity composed, and high exploit. But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna,7 Ќ ~ Matures! counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Reference - 1911 - 761 pages
...compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow. 1129 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 110 His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. 1130 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. il. Line 112. 'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, Or carry smiles... | |
 | 1913 - 250 pages
...apple rotten at the heart; O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Milton: Paradise Lost. O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. Scott: Marmion.... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Law - 1918
...of whom Milton writes "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 Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels,... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1918
...seemed For dignity composed and ihigh 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 Matures! counsels, for iris thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 679 pages
...and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit. 110 te against each other, where reason is perplexed,...only thickens the confusion; for high and reverend au Matures! counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | 1868
...fell to the lot of every horse in that stable. Oh ! it was an exhibition worthy of Belial, whose ' tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason," to hear the persuasive accent with which this master in horseflesh as well as ethics pleased the ear and... | |
 | K. T. Aitken - Religion - 1986 - 264 pages
...as if it is the right thing to do. Again they have taken a leaf out of the book of Milton's Satan: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt...and could make the worse appear The better reason. The theme of the loose woman (vv. 16-19) is later developed at length in 5:1-14, 6:24-35 and 7:1-27.... | |
 | Tom Keymer - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 296 pages
...application. After the dinner at Sinclair's, for example, Clarissa quotes from the conference in Hell: - His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious: But to nobler deeds Tim'rous and... | |
 | Hélène Cixous - Fiction - 1994 - 294 pages
...Francisco State University. 47. Milton, another guardian of Manna, wrote of Belial in Paradise Lost: "His tongue / Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason." 48. P. 76. 49. See Roman Jakobson's "Linguistics and Poetics," in Style in Language, ed. Thomas Sebeok... | |
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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 Matures! 
