 | 1844 - 671 Seiten
...advocate than most men are aware of. Truth is sometimes difficult to find. There are advocates who " Could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." Is it lawful to use this power to sustain a bad cause, or in the defence of the guilty,... | |
 | 1847 - 584 Seiten
...parties, and how repeatedly Time, the great arbiter, has declared that Religion has been employed " to make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels." Position after position has been occupied, only to be ignominously abandoned ; till men's... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 Seiten
...and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; he seem'd 110 For dignity composed, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1848 - 566 Seiten
...character, possessed all the influence to evil attributed to Hastings in the Last of the Barons.} * * * * His tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse...appear The better reason to perplex and dash maturest couneel. The brother is ultimately sent to Botany Bay which precedes the destruction of the sister,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 Seiten
...and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven(; he seem'd 110 For dignity composed, and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for Ms thoughts were low 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 Seiten
...poet made the portrait a description : — " He seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : lint all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 Seiten
...poet made the portrait a deseription : — " He seem'd For dignity composed and high exploit : Rut all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd...worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels: for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and... | |
 | 1849 - 614 Seiten
...seem'd For dignity compos'd nnd 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, hut to noble deeds Timorous and slothful;... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 296 Seiten
...dangerous . , For digmty compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow : though his tonsrue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Mat'irest counsels ; for his thoughts were low : 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous... | |
 | William Frederick Mylius - 1849 - 472 Seiten
...little letter 's' is one of the slyest introductions that ever Belial resorted to, when he would ' Make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels; for his thoughts are low.' I am perfectly aware who added that 's'; I know the hand. I discern... | |
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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... 
