 | John Aikin - Poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, appeal The belter reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels: for his thoughts were low, To vice... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 807 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, ² T appeat The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were lew, To vice... | |
 | Sketch - 1843
...to what it is in point of fact. How does this remind us of Belial, in Milton's poem ! — -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. Such a course needs no comment. It... | |
 | Baron Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux - Biography & Autobiography - 1844
...graceful and humane — A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. But his eminently judicial qualifications shone forth conspicuously when he rose into their proper... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1845 - 320 pages
...save that fount alone ; With that, and life, we never part ; For life, and love — are one. He seemed For dignity composed, — and high exploit; But all was false — and hollow. Proverbs. I. He, who thinks he know« the mosi, knows the least. 2. Take every thing as il comes, and... | |
 | JOHN MILTON - 1848
...side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd 110 For dignity composed, 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... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - Literary Criticism - 1849 - 582 pages
...side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven(; he seem'd 110 For dignity composed, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 283 pages
..., For digmty compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow : though his tonsrue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Mat'irest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 360 pages
...seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : Rut all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd 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 Timorous and... | |
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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! 
