 How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.  Comus: A Mask - Page 39by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. 475 Y. Buo. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's Urn-, And a perpetual feast of nectar' d sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. , "— • K. BRO.... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...sensuality " To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. Bro. " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual feast of neclar'd sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." E. Bro. List, list ! I hear Some far-off halloo... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 468 pages
...sensuality " To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. Bra. " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual" feast of nectar'd sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." £. Bra. List, list! I hear Some far-oft" hallco... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. Sec. Er. How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical, as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. El. Br. ' • List, list, I hear Some far oft" halloo... | |
 | John Langhorne - English fiction - 1802 - 310 pages
...gladly be of opinion with the Englifh poet, where lie fays, How charming is divine philowphy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's. Iul4 ! ... I would willingly perfuade myfelf that the beft poets are capable of inftructing us in every... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Botany - 1803 - 630 pages
...greatest of the English poets uses the word " nectared." " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." MILTON. a. TH E nectary assumes a variety of forms,... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. Y. BRO. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. E. BKO. List, list, I hear 480 Some far-off halloo... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 384 pages
...choreis, Immortale melos, ct inenarrabile carmen. In Comus. How charming is divine philosophy t Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. So in Paradise Regained, Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk, Smooth on the tongue discours'd,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 384 pages
...choreis, Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen. In Comus. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not har»h and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. So in Paradise Regained, Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk, Smooth on the tongue discours'd,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...he possessed. He justified the description of the poet, " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute !" Those who object to thig union of grace and beauty with reason, ire in fact weak-sighted people,... | |
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