 | John Milton - 1850 - 296 pages
...side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd 110 For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manaa, ami could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850
...knew, and he painted Antony. Another great [>oet made the portrait a description : — " He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could moke the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels... | |
 | George Crabb - Reference - 1850 - 536 pages
...words arc without meaning ; a truce is hollow which is only an external cessation from hostilities; He seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit ; But all was false and hollow.— MILTON. A person is empty who Is without the requisite portion of understanding and knowledge; on excuse... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850
...Where small experience grows. Taming of the Shrew — Act 1, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARE. TWENTY ONE. 174. — His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Paradise Lost. MILTON. 175. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. King Richard 2nd — Act 6,... | |
 | Pliny Miles - 1850
...Where small experience grows. Taming of the Shrew — Act 1, Sc. 2. SHAKSPEARE. TWENTY OWE. 174. — His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Paradise Lost. MILTON. 175. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. King Richard 2nd — Act 5,... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 382 pages
...in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity 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 ;... | |
 | 1851
...Shakspeare knew, and he painted Antony. Another great poet made the portrait a description : — " 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 MILTON - 1851
...second battle, his horror of annihilation, his preferring to be miserable rather than u not to be.'L Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels : for his thoughts were low ; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Tim'rous... | |
 | 1851
...way. Such use — or, rather, abuse — of speech, reminds us of Milton's description of he, whose " Tongue Drop't manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason." Several opponents, and Mr. Dunning amongst the number, said that as no notice had been taken of the... | |
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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! 
