Sunday, June 16, 2013

Yet he pleas' d the ear

 

“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

—Milton, Paradise Lost , II

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