 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 lehte
...seem'dn* 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 ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful:... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 lehte
...seem'd n0 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 ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds 1 1 6 Tim'rous and... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 lehte
...seem'd lie 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 Ivlaturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | 530 lehte
...in the striking lines of our poet: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, he could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels ; for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, hut to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 lehte
...seem'd 110 tor dignny 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... | |
 | 1809 - 344 lehte
...seem'd 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; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Tim'rous and slothful... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 lehte
...seem'd 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; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | Hannah More - 1810 - 220 lehte
...dignity compos'd, and high exploit : . :. " Bat all was false and hollow ; though bis tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matnrest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 lehte
...seem'd 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 Matured counsels, for his thoughts were low : To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Tim'imis and... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 446 lehte
...de- * traders, 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 dash maturest counsels. She fills the trump of glory with the venal blast of adulation, and binds the wreath of honor... | |
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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... 
