| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 páginas
...act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven ; lie seem'd For dignity compos'd , and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ;...Dropt manna , and could make the worse appear The belter reason , to perplex and dash Matures! counsels ; for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 páginas
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, ² T appeat The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were lew, To vice... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 páginas
...in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd, appeal The belter reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels: for his thoughts were low, To vice... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1877 - 802 páginas
...Belial, as in Paradise Lost. being set great atore by for their power of eloquent dissimulation, since his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. It may be said, in passing, that the figure of Belzebub, though to less marked a degree, resembles... | |
| Kenneth T. Aitken - 1986 - 284 páginas
...as if it is the right thing to do. Again they have taken a leaf out of the book of Milton's Satan: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt...and could make the worse appear The better reason. The theme of the loose woman (vv. 16-19) is later developed at length in 5:1-14, 6:24-35 and 7:1-27.... | |
| Tom Keymer, Thomas Keymer - 2004 - 300 páginas
...application. After the dinner at Sinclair's, for example, Clarissa quotes from the conference in Hell: - His tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Matures! counsels; for his thoughts were low; To vice industrious: But to nobler deeds Tim'rous and... | |
| Hélène Cixous - 1994 - 414 páginas
...Francisco State University. 47. Milton, another guardian of Manna, wrote of Belial in Paradise Lost: "His tongue / Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason." 48. P. 76. 49. See Roman Jakobson's "Linguistics and Poetics," in Style in Language, ed. Thomas Sebeok... | |
| Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - 2010 - 498 páginas
...Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though...dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low;. . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent thus began. (Paradise Lost, II, 108-15,... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...composed, the altar prepared, and but the torch wanting for his apotheosis, like his own Belial, vhose tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear...better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels — comes this avowed enemy, to forbid the rites, and oppose the claim — Of Johnson, from his great... | |
| Professor Michael F Bernard-Donals, Michael F. Bernard-Donals, Richard R. Glejzer - 1998 - 492 páginas
...Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heav'n; he seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though...dash Maturest counsels: for his thoughts were low; . . . ... yet he pleas'd the ear, And with persuasive accent thus began. -Paradise Lost, II, 108-15,... | |
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