 | 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 tongu Dropt manna, and could make the worse appeal The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels;... | |
 | 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 ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash 1 15 Maturest counsels... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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... | |
 | Sketch - 1843 - 312 pages
...diametrically opposed to what it is in point of fact. How does this remind us of Belial, in Milton's poem ! — -He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit :...Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Such a course needs no comment. It calls at once for the most unqualified condemnation.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1843 - 442 pages
...pencil. f A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit ; But allwas false and hollow, though his tongue 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...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 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; lie 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 belter reason , to perplex and dash Matures! counsels... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, Dropt manna, and could make the worse appeal The belter reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels:... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...th' other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A i'airer person lost not Heaven ; he seemed 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 Maturest counsels... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...ЛИ, save that fount alone ; With that, and life, we never part ; For life, and love — are one. He seemed For dignity composed, — and high exploit; But all was false — and hollow. Proverbs. I. He, who thinks he know« the mosi, knows the least. 2. Take every thing as il comes, and... | |
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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... 
