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
| William Grisenthwaite - Genius - 1830 - 104 pages
...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." Having shown that the direct road to philosophy, is... | |
| 1830 - 582 pages
...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». " It is a faithful saying and worthy... | |
| 1830 - 854 pages
...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 generally considered, that... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...fought, how gloriously they fell. Z. THE LIMPING PHILOSOPHER. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. MASK or COMUS, v 475 — 480. IN the early times of the Massachusetts colony, one Mr. Josiah Plaistowe,... | |
| William Hamilton Drummond - Trinity - 1831 - 198 pages
...which is cultivated by such minds as Newton's and Milton's. 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'S COM us. 103 symbolize with the Scriptures... | |
| 1831 - 550 pages
...justly, as well as beautifully described in Milton's Comus. " How charming is divine philosophy — Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute And a perpetual round of nectared sweets." ART. II. — 1. An Essay on the Operation of Poison upon the Living Body.... | |
| William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...such occasions, he used, with our Platonic Bard, to exclaim, ' 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.' In the weak state of his eyes, it was his habit to... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. 475 2 BR. 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. 1 B. List, list, I hear 4*> Some far off halloo break... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1832 - 336 pages
...gentlemanlike young man, who, like " Philosophy," as praised by the brother in Comus, was — " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." The tutor was, in very sooth, in the most modern acceptation of the term, " musical ;" and his flute,... | |
| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...a human body. Isocrates. How charming is divine philosopby ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull tools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.— Milton's Comua. acts. PHILIP of Macedon takes possession... | |
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