Brewer's: Blaney

A wealthy heir, ruined by dissipation, in Crabbe's Borough.

Misery and mirth are blended in his face, Much innate vileness and some outward grace:... The serpent's cunning and the sinner's fall,

Letter xiv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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