 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 páginas
...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 ; 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 páginas
...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... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...prais'd by flatt'ring tongues. Sir Robert Howard's Duke of Lerma. His tongue Dropp'd manna, and eould make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest eounsels. Milton's Paradise Lost. When with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other... | |
 | 1856 - 570 páginas
...choice, An arrow for the heart like a Sweet Voice. IElo pence. — His Tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels e. — Hamrd. Q ELOQUENCE ! thou violated fair, How art thou woo'd, and won to either bed Of Right... | |
 | Sir James Young Simpson - 1856 - 164 páginas
...rather as a law-pleader, you will particularly distinguish yourself above your fellows, so as to " make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ;" then, betimes the ermined gown of the judge may bedeck your shoulders. But, above all, perhaps,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...Continued. Book ii. Line 112. But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropped manna ; and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Book ii. Line 300. With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state ; deep on... | |
 | sir James Young Simpson (1st bart.) - 1856 - 166 páginas
...rather as a law-pleader, you will particularly distinguish yourself above your fellows, so as to " make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ;" then, betimes the ennined gown of the judge may bedeck your shoulders. But, above all, perhaps,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 424 páginas
...slyest 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 Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts are low.' I am perfectly aware, Sir, by whom that s was added. I know the handwriting.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...composed, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropped 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 pleased... | |
 | 1864 - 492 páginas
...necessitates forensic eloquence. It is often supposed that the whole aim and intent of a legal pleader is to " Make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." The idea of a matched controversy puts this idea out of place. The well-trained and athletic sinews... | |
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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... 
