 | Great Britain - 1772 - 226 pages
...OTHER fide up rofe " BELIAL ; " A faire r perfon loft not heav'n ; he feem'd " For dignity compos'd and high exploit : " But all was FALSE and HOLLOW ; though " his tongue " Dropt Manna, and could make the worfc " appear " The BETTER reafon." MILTON, book II. line io€,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...in aft more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seem'dn* For dignity 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:... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd n0 For dignity 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Belial, in act more graceful and humanei 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, and could make the worse appear The hetter reason, to perpler and dash Maturest counselsi... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd lie For dignity 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 Ivlaturest counsels... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...that ever held the poetic pencil. 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, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels;... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity 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 Matured counsels,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd For dignity 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.:... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 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, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Incunabula - 1814 - 564 pages
...lore. Are we not here instantly reminded of Ail Belial? A fairer person lost not Heaven; he sccm'd For dignity composed, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though hi* tongue Dropt manna, &c, TodcC$ Milton ; edit. 1809. e T primo aduocabit demunium cum omnibus angelis... | |
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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... 
