 | William Grisenthwaite - Genius - 1830 - 104 pages
...progress, however, we may exclaim of Philosophy in general, as the Poet with perfect truth, exclaimed " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." Having shown that the direct road to philosophy, is through the diligent exercise of sense, perfect... | |
 | 1830 - 582 pages
...philosophy, hut in vain ; she reads the Bible, and scarcely any thing else, and lives to adorn its doctrines. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, Perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reign». " It is a faithful saying and worthy... | |
 | 1830 - 854 pages
...and in vindication of the sacredness and sublimity of its character, we are ready to exclaim — " How charming is Divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lyre." But I observe, thirdly, as exhibiting the obligations of genius more generally considered, that... | |
 | James Easton - 1830 - 110 pages
...the utility of the refined 'indies to which his life had been dedicated.. Philosophy is shown to be Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Appollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no rude surfeits reign. The last work... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Trinity - 1831 - 198 pages
...nor the ßtÇta of Greg. Naz. but that which is cultivated by such minds as Newton's and Milton's. How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. MILTON'S COM us. 103 symbolize with the Scriptures in proclaiming the unity of God, that philosophy... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - Education - 1992 - 266 pages
...students will see that not only does it beat watching wrestling on TV, it is worthy of Milton's words: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as in Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. READING... | |
 | Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 600 pages
...philosophy the very reverse of that so justly, as well as beautifully, described in Milton's Comus: 'How charming is divine philosophy Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose — ' " 48 During the course of his pilgrim's progress, Orestes A. Brownson took up many of the popular... | |
 | Roger Backhouse - Economics - 1994 - 404 pages
...gentleman's [FCS Schiller's] particular bete noire, it will be as Shakespeare said (of it remember) 'Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute,' etc. (5.S37)22 A division of labour presupposes a common enterprise. For Peirce there is a difference... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...younger brother to exclaim (one must imagine the audience listening): How charming is divine philosophy I 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. (476-80) At this point they hear someone approaching,... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 182 pages
...praiseworthy diligence; but where did you ever see them feed their souls? At what fountains of sweet philosophy— "Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute," — have you beheld them drink of that Marah — that divine bitter, which refreshes the germ of immortality... | |
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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. 
