While sloth seduces more, too weak to bear The insupportable fatigue of thought, And swallowing therefore, without pause or choice, The total grist unsifted, husks and all.

There are certain views in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, which readily lend themselves to eloquence, because eloquent men have written largely on them, and the temptation to secure this facile effect often seduces men to advocate these views in preference to views they really see to be more rational.

It cannot be said that Marlowe's Devil seduces Faustus.

In the First Part, stung by disappointment in his search of knowledge, by failure to lay hold of the superhuman, and urged on by his baser propensities personified in Mephistopheles, Faust abandons himself to sensual pleasure,seduces innocence, burdens his soul with heavy guilt, and seems to be entirely given over to evil.

Let us then enjoy the enchantment without seeking to know the cause of the charm which amuses and seduces us.

He seduces the people by words of double meaning,' etc., etc.

'He seduces the people, and inculcates the most disgusting doctrines.

The fourth letter is a well-told Eastern adventure, dealing with the revenge of Forzio who seduces the wife of his enemy, Ben-hamar, through the agency of a Christian slave, but in general the "Letters" are valuable only as they add an atom of evidence to the popularity of pseudo-Oriental material.

He seduces his cook, or dishonours his niece.

But the same subtilty of mind, which sometimes seduces Mr. Wedgwood into making distinctions without a difference and preferring an impalpable relation of idea to a plain derivative affinity, is of great advantage to him when the problem is to construct an etymology by following the gossamer clews that lead from sensual images to the metaphorical and tropical adaptations of them to the demands of fancy and thought.

It is in this view only that we can discover that Mr. Moore's poetry is vitiated or immoral,it seduces the taste and enervates the imagination.

It alternates admirably with skating, and seduces irresistibly into walking or rowing when spring arrives.

He "leans on his own soul," and makes love to the Countess and seduces Alice Darvell.

The pleasure of being caressed, distinguished, and admired, easily seduces the student from literary solitude.

ARMI'DA, a sorceress, who seduces Rinaldo and other crusaders from the siege of Jerusalem.

After alluring his son to gamble away all his property, he meets him near St. Ire'nê, and Hel'ena seduces him to join in "the Dance of Love."

Arthur Donnithorn: Young Squire who seduces Hetty Sorrel in George Eliot's novel of Adam Bede.

He produces no obliquity in our moral sense, nor seduces us to lend our sympathy against the dictates of our better reason.

It seduces you and bribes you in advance to become his disciple.

Goods purchased from such motives are not as you may conceive sold till the temptation of an exorbitant profit seduces the proprietor to risk a momentary possession of assignats, which are again disposed of in a similar way.

Goods purchased from such motives are not as you may conceive sold till the temptation of an exorbitant profit seduces the proprietor to risk a momentary possession of assignats, which are again disposed of in a similar way.

Yet this, though bad, is not the worst; my father deceives himself in the hopes of the very child he has brought into the world; he suffers his house to be the seat of drunkenness, riot, and irreligion, who seduces, almost in my sight, the menial servant, converses with the prostitute, and corrupts the wife!

There is a certain force, a false air of truth, in this daguerreotype process of writing, that seduces at first sight.

ARCHIMA`GO, a sorcerer in Spenser's "Faërie Queene," who in the disguise of a reverend hermit, and by the help of Duessa or Deceit, seduces the Red-Cross Knight from Una or Truth.

MARGARET, a simple, innocent girl in Goethe's "Faust," who is the victim of a tragic fatality; Faust meets her as she comes from church, falls in love with her, and seduces her; she slays the infant born, is convicted and condemned to death, and loses her reason; Faust would fain save her, but he is hurried away by Mephistopheles, and she is left to her fate.