 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 sider
...act more graceful and humane ; no A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ;...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash 1 15 Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 sider
...in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not Heav'n ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow; though...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; ho seem'd For dignily compos'd, , To sell him for six hundred pound. "Had he but spar'd his tongue and appeal The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low, To vice... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1841 - 546 sider
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1841 - 546 sider
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. 28 CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1841 - 552 sider
...honesty ; a specious — a false — a pleasing— an accomplished, and a mischievous citizen : — He seemed For dignity composed, and high exploit; But all was false and hollow. 28 CHAPTER II. Public sentiment in Ireland — Lord Mornington, afterwards Marquess Wellesley — Acquaintance... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1841 - 360 sider
...fell off to infidelity he drew scores, not a few, with him into that vortex. , " His tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." When his star was in the zenith, he published a volume of ' Lectures' which were... | |
 | Edwin Francis Hatfield - 1841 - 360 sider
...those texts which most plainly speak against their doctrine, and so to torture them as to — — — " Make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels." Of all Latitudinarians these are the most worthy of the name. No heretic can wish more liberty than... | |
 | Thomas Quarles - 1842 - 196 sider
..."John de Foulsham was so deeply versed in syllogistical reasoning," says his enraptured biographer,— his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, "that he could turn black into white, and men into asses!" Bale, however, shortly after this excess... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 sider
...side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity composed, and high exploit: But all was...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... | |
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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... 
