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. The Eclectic Review - Page 220edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1830 - 582 pages
...and 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1830 - 854 pages
...sacredness 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... | |
| James Easton - 1830 - 110 pages
...the utility of the refined 'indies to which his life had been dedicated.. Philosophy is shown to be Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Appollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no rude surfeits reign. The last work... | |
| William Hamilton Drummond - Trinity - 1831 - 198 pages
...that 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Henry Lister - 1832 - 336 pages
...quiet, 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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