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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 nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. "
Comus: A Mask - Page 39
by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pages
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On genius, in which it is attempted to be proved that there is no mental ...

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...
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The baptist Magazine

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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

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...
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The New-England Magazine, Volume 1

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,...
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The doctrine of the Trinity, founded neither on Scripture, nor on reason and ...

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...
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Southern Review, Volume 7

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....
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The remains of William Phelan [ed. by M. Phelan]. With a biogr ..., Volume 1

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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

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...
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Arlington: A Novel, Volume 1

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,...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

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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