 On the 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 tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better...  Rhoda: A Novel - Page 207by Alethea Lewis - 1816Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...; he seem'd 119 For dignity co;npos"d and hitjh 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 Ma tu rest counsels: for his thoughts were low; US To vice industrious, but to... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Heav'n ; he seem'd 110 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! counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; 115 To vine industrious, but to... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : liut all was false and hollow ; though his r comes ! by ancient lards foretold : Hear him, ye deaf! and all ye bl to perplex and dash Matures! counsels : for his thoughts were low To vice industrious, but to nobler... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Heav'n ; he seem'd 110 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; for his thoughts were low; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...Heaven : he seem'd Por 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 : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pages
...whole of his behaviour and conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton : — - His tongue Dropt 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Dost thou not curse thy charms for pleasing him, And blush at conquest ? Havard's King Charles 1. His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 2. Oft the hours From morn to eve... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his , inscrib'd with woe. Ah ! who hath reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...poet : — 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 councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 788 pages
...poet :— 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 Matures! councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General... | |
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