 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven; he seeurd uo 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 572 pages
...that species of greatness typified by Milton in the person of Belial, in Pandemonium ; " He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. But all was...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels ; for his thoughts were lota; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 536 pages
...that species of greatness typified by Milton in the person of Belial, in Pandemonium ; " He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit. But all was...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... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...gloss, and colouring, but is entirely destitute of the agreeable taste of the real cherry. DECEPTION. He seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : But all was false and hollow. MILTON. A villain, when he most seems kind, Is most to be suspected. LANSDOWN. Thou hast prevaricated... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...earth ; Or as a stone, that shall to pieces doth All monarchies beeiden throughout the world. Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dtuh Maturest councils. Jd, If a woman once doth upon the rock of reproach, ihe hardly ever recruits... | |
 | Spirit - 1840 - 406 pages
...point of fact. How does this remind us of Belial, in Milton's poem : • He seemed For dignity compos'd 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...act more graceful and humane ; no A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ;...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash 1 15 Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; ho seem'd For dignily compos'd, , To sell him for six hundred pound. "Had he but spar'd his tongue and appeal The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low, To vice... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1841 - 546 pages
...a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. 28 CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
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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! 
