 | 1822 - 488 pages
...POPE'S HOMER, II. book i. 331. 1 See the character of Belial, Milton, Par. Lost, Book ii. ver. 112. But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt...manna, and could make the worse appear The better cause. and is on many occasions the indication of a great flakid. Several authors have treated of Silence... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd mauna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash tt*~\f£ Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, hut to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 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 ;...tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear / ... _ . ., ^ ,, ., He is in the second book, pursuant to that description, characterized as timorous... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 874 pages
...behaviour and conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton :— His tongue Dropt raanna, 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'roui... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd 110 For dignity corapos'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 Matures! counsels;... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 788 pages
...plain. The look of the proposer was calm and favourable ; but the smile that so often played upon his lips seemed like sun-shine glancing on the whitened...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General was really disclaimed,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...in aet more graeeful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity eompos'd, eould make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest eounsels : for his thoughts... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 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 false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 696 pages
...but ill-devoted powers of eloquence ; for he was largely accomplished, like the poet's Belial; • his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Among these exhibitions, I especially recollect, as if it had occurred but yesterday, his loud lament,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 652 pages
...mighty but ill-devoted powere of eloquence ; for he was largely accomplished, like the poet's Belial: his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Among these exhibitions, I especially recollect, as if it had occurred but yesterday, his loud lament,... | |
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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! 
