 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 sider
...bringing very forcibly to our recollection the following passage of our great poet : — He seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit ; But all was...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest councils : If the imputation of corruption on the late Governor-General was really disclaimed,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 sider
...in aet more graeeful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity eompos'd, eould make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest eounsels : for his thoughts... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 318 sider
...side uprose Belial, in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd HO For dignity 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 Matures! counsels... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 sider
...110 For dignity 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 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 652 sider
...mighty but ill-devoted powere of eloquence ; for he was largely accomplished, like the poet's Belial: his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Among these exhibitions, I especially recollect, as if it had occurred but yesterday, his loud lament,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 918 sider
...introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any of those speeches which are calculated to " ^— — — make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels: for his thoughts are low." I am perfectly aware by whom that * was added. I know the hand-writing.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 902 sider
...introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any of those speeches which are calculated to « • make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels: for his thoughts are low." I am perfectly aware by whom that s was added. I know the hand-writing.... | |
 | 1826 - 696 sider
...but ill-devoted powers of eloquence ; for he was largely accomplished, like the poet's Belial; • his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason. Among these exhibitions, I especially recollect, as if it had occurred but yesterday, his loud lament,... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 sider
...Belial, in act more graceful and humane. 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 Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash ,,. ., . .. Maturest... | |
 | 1827 - 294 sider
...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 1 12 Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels... | |
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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... 
