| 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... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...withal, in his voice and in his manner; * 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 Coxmse!,-but his thoughts were loWj' To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds u :••>'• ' Timorous... | |
| 530 pages
...in the striking lines of our poet: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, he could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels ; for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, hut to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...seem'd 110 tor dignny compos'd and high explon : But all was false and hollow ; though bis tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better...perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he pleas'd the ear,... | |
| 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;... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 220 pages
...dignity compos'd, and high exploit : . :. " Bat all was false and hollow ; though bis tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
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