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
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...corrected by our great, and learned, and philo. sophical Poet — How charmingf is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is' Apollo's lute, And a perpetnal feast of nectar'd sweet, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Milton's Comus. Men of Phlegm. These... | |
| Author of Art of improving the voice - Hair - 1825 - 280 pages
...and level as we can, and cause you to exclaim with Milton — How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lute. COMUS. I.— ANATOMY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE HAIR. As it is impossible to understand the nature and... | |
| James Easton - 1825 - 116 pages
...to which his life had been dedicated. Philosophy is shown to be Not harsh and crabbed as dull foot] suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of necttr'd sweets, Where DO rude surfeits reign. The last work which this great man published was Spring,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 464 pages
...rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — 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. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — 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. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. SECOND BROTHER. 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. ELDER BROTHER. List, list, I hear Some far off halloo... | |
| William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — 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. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went... | |
| Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 342 pages
...deserts us not in death, ever at hand to protect and to bless. So 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. Such was the philosophy of Xenophon, now listening to... | |
| English literature - 1827 - 530 pages
...study of Political Economy, important as we have shown it to be to the well-being of mankind, is " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." As an instance of the interest which may be communicated to topics of this kind, by a dexterous method... | |
| 1828 - 844 pages
...ourselves and all surrounding us. Truly has the poet said of philosophy, that it is— Not harsh nor crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute ; And a perpetual feast of nectar'd streets. Where no rude surfeits reign. " The most complicated state in which matter exists,... | |
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