 | John Milton - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...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 Milton - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...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... | |
 | 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...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 - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...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 - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...detractors, is the purveyor of fraud, and the pander of delusion. Her tongue drops manna, but to make the worse appear the better reason; to perplex and...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 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...composed, 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 : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...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 deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
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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... 
