 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
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. See. Br. How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. El. Br. List, list ; I hear Some far-off halloo break the silent air. Sec. B. Methought so too; what... | |
 | William Kitchiner - Cooking, English - 1836 - 432 pages
...noxious; — and that every thing that is Nasty is wholesome. " 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 swcets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." — MILTON. Worthy William Shakspeare declared he... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836 - 182 pages
...Religion winning to gaiety and youth. What has Milton said ? 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 nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.* Less than he has said of Philosophy, I would not,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...mind first became directed to the prosecution of philosophical inquiry, — to him, at least — " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." After having diligently studied the works of some of the most eminent metaphysicians, the youthful... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...uniform. The tone with which he incants the lines from Comus: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute . . . (11. 476-78) argues against the message he asserts; in this context it forbodes a "crabbed" and... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state. SECOND BROTHER How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical...Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, ELDER BROTHER List! list! I hear 480 Some far-off hallo break the silent air. SECOND BROTHER Methought... | |
 | 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
...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...of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. (476-80) At this point they hear someone approaching, and Milton gives the boys speeches probably more... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 182 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...his tomb in Highgate Cemetery, London. 10 How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb'd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Second brother, in "Comus," I. 476-80 (1637). 1 1 Bishop Berkeley... | |
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