 | English literature - 1823 - 582 pages
...often room for debate; and it is one of the most ancient and usual employments of oratory . ; . to make the worse appear . ,. . , , The better reason, to perplex and dash Mat'urest counsels. In the next place, the people have, in alt ages and nations, been suspected of a tendency to take the... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...pleasing him, And blush at conquest ? Havard's King Charles 1. His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 2. Oft the hours From morn to eve have stolen unmark'd away, While mute... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1824 - 806 pages
...conversation, he put me in mind of that character in Milton : — - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...compos'd, and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make reft (quoth he) my dearest pledge ? Las : for his thoughts were low, To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet he... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1825 - 728 pages
...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 White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...compos'd, and high exploit: 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 counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds . , „", , Timorous and slothful:... | |
 | Christopher Quandary (pseud.) - Politics, Practical - 1827 - 36 pages
...I have lately been informed, that Mr. Tazewell is a mere sophist, or rather a Belial, who can "make the worse appear the better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels ;" and Mr. Randolph, " a combination of English arrogance, grafted on a petty stock of princely Indian... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 574 pages
...intervallo the first in either House of Parlia'ment. No man living has the same power to " — Make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels," for no man living has the same classical beauty of head and countenance — the same insinuating earnestness... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1828 - 550 pages
...introductions that Belial ever resorted to, in any of those speeches which are calculated to 1 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 hand-writing.*... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...composed, and high exploit : 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 counsels : for his thoughts were low 115 To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful : yet... | |
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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... 
