| John Milton - 1795 - 316 páginas
...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 pleas'd the ear,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...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 : yet he pleas'd the... | |
| John Bristed - 1803 - 326 páginas
...and in his manner; * 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 Coxmse!,-but his thoughts were loWj' To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds u :••>'• ' Timorous... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 páginas
...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 he pleas'd the ear,... | |
| 1809 - 344 páginas
...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 pleas'd the ear.... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...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 pleas'd the ear,... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 446 páginas
...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 around... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 466 páginas
...detracters, is the purveyor of fraud, and the pander of delusion. Her tongue drops manna, but to make j 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 around... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 páginas
...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 pleas'd the ear, And... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - 1818 - 276 páginas
...eloquent 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 dash maturest counsels. She fills the trump of glory with the venal blast of * adulation, and binds the wreath of honor around... | |
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