 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...philosophy. But hear, in answer, the most sublime among our poets — 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. Levic. Well, well ; I will... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...philosophy. But hear, in answer, the most sublime among our poets — 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. Levic. Well, well ; I will... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...which he professed and we believe sincerely venerated, and which is truly — ' a divine philosophy, Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, . , But musical as is Apollo's lyre, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets !' THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I. — I. Horatius Restitutus... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...off beneath the touch of vice. The second brother then exclains, " How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." And Socrates in Platof had before him spoken of philosophy as being the noblest music 'Qs The spirit,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...will submit to it ; and then it is that even youth can discover " How charming is divine philosophy, Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." Ik One consequence of this was a resolution (how often made, and how often broken, by many besides... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...the 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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...younger 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 as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. (476-80) At this point they... | |
 | Susan Haack - Philosophy - 2000 - 246 pages
...they are not abstruse, arid, and abstract, in which case, ... it will be as Shakespeare said . . . "Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute," . . . (5.537). The reader may find the matter [of my "Minute Logic"] so dry, husky and innutritious... | |
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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 nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. 
