 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heav'n ; he seem'd no For dignity compos'd 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;... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...disappointed. This is a disposition most appropriate for fiends. Milton says of Belial, — " He seero'd For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow." Hypocrisy may exist, either in appearing better or worse than the reality. The former is more prevalent.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 422 pages
...Belial, drawn by the sublimest hand that ever held the poetic pencil. A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd 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 - 1835 - 264 pages
...side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd HO For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was...tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear sit we here projecting peace or war?' hut Juhnson, in his Diet, uuder Douht, quotes the passage, '... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...the other side up rose Belial , in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven; he seem'd 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 dasli Maturest counsels... | |
 | Hannah More - English literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit ; Put 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 his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...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 tongne Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...the other side up rose Belial , in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person Jost not heaven; he seem'd. 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 - 1837 - 524 pages
...the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful ana humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue « doivent nous éprouver sans espérance de finir , « nous les vassaux de la Colère , quand le Fouet... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 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; . 1ère , quand le Fouet inexorable et l'heure de v... | |
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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! 
