| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful: yet he... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...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 ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds 1 1 6 Tim'rous and slothful... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 pages
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...compos'd and high explon : But all was false and hollow ; though bis 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 deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
| Conduct of life - 1809 - 344 pages
...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; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful ; yet be... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...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; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...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, To tice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothfulj yet he... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...inflaming against it the rancour of jealousy. Eloquence, we are told by these eloquent detractors, is the purveyor of fraud, and the pander of delusion....ready to rescue the culprit from punishment, and to ti.'m the bolt of public vengeance upon innocence. Upon every breeze her breath wings the pestilence... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...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 deeds Timorous and slothful; yet... | |
| English literature - 1833 - 546 pages
...composed and high exploit. But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dfopt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." On the occasion we speak of, Belial rose with a smile in which it Was difficult to perceive whether... | |
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