 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
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...Constaninople and the state of its fortifications.' POPULAR SCIENCE. ' How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.' Hilton's Paradise Regained. 1. ANIMAL MECHANICS. Ears of Song-Birdi. — It is mentioned in the ' Miscellanea... | |
 | 846 pages
...surrounding us. Truly has the poet said of philosophy, that it is — Not harsh nor crabbed as doll fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute ; And a perpetual feast of nectar'd juveets. Where no rude surfeits reign. I have recently met with a work of Dr. Arnott's, which... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...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 no hesitation in saying ; and... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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. Mitton. MLXXII. What can an Actor give ? in ev'ry age... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...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. Hilton. To their supper-fruits they fell ; Kcctarint... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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. Milton. MLXXII. What can an Actor give ? in ev'ry age... | |
 | 1829 - 624 pages
...listen to the cheering voice of that philosophy, which is not harsh-and crabbed, as religion is. " But musical as is Apollo's lute. And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets ; Where no erode surfeit reigns/' Philosophy does not require us to adopt into our minds any supernatural or unnatural... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pages
...listen to the cheering voice of that philosophy, which is not harsh and crabbed, as religion is. " But musical as is Apollo's lute. And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets ; Wliere no erode surfeit reigns.'' Philosophy does not require us to adopt into our minds any supernatural... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...Cooke, Dance, Dizi, Latour, and Weichsel. POPULAR SCIENCE. ' How charming: is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.' — Comus. I.— ANIMATED' NATURE. ' And God said, let them have dominion over the fith of tht sea,... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...mind. This is the true philosophy of life, a philosophy indeed " Not harsh and crabbed as dull men suppose But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of Dectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns." ' The word temper, (with the epithets a good or bad... | |
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