| Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 342 pages
...with us through life and deserts us not in death, ever at hand to protect and to bless. So 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.... | |
| 1828 - 268 pages
...eyes that bad beheld the mighty presence of the Last of the Giants ? POPULAR SCIENCE. ' How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as ifi Apollo's lute.' Milton's Pandlte Regained. \. ANIMATED NATURE. ' And God said, let them... | |
| Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...reprocher des infirmite's ne'cessaires et qu'ils n'ont pu s'empe'cher de contracter." " How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lute." That this author is a friend to the best interests of humanity, we have... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...synonymous, as an adjective, with nectared ; and, as a substantive, a fruit of the plum kind. 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 ncctartd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...memory of imperfect pleasures, idle dreams, and occasional amusements. — Steele. MLXXI. 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.... | |
| 1829 - 460 pages
...may be well now to confess our acquiescence.in this general eulogy. POPULAR SCIENCE. 1 How charming is divine philosophy \ Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose. But musical as Is Apollo's lute.'— Comut. I.— ANIMATED NATURE. • And God >aid, let them have dominion... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...memory of imperfect pleasures, idle dreams, and occasional amusements.—Steele. MLXXI. 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.... | |
| 1830 - 854 pages
...vindication of the sacredness and sublimity of its character, we are ready to exclaim — " How charming is Divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lyre." But I observe, thirdly, as exhibiting the obligations of genius more... | |
| William Grisenthwaite - Genius - 1830 - 104 pages
...however, we may exclaim of Philosophy in general, as the Poet with perfect truth, exclaimed " 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."... | |
| 1830 - 582 pages
...; she reads the Bible, and scarcely any thing else, and lives to adorn its doctrines. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, Perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reign». "... | |
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