 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...admiration of Elder Brother's confident celebration of chastity: "How charming is divine Philosophy ! / Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, / But musical as is Apollo's lute" (476-78). Milton's Mask participates in one of the musical duels of the Renaissance, representing Apollinian... | |
 | Robin Peel - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 364 pages
...Reason," which, quoting from Milton's Comus, she likens to the much-slandered philosophy, a subject Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose But musical as is Apollo's lute111 That this was difficult territory for a woman is made clear in Wharton's short story "The Pelican"... | |
 | Robert Taylor - Christianity - 2006 - 361 pages
...he could have bem held in them so long; and to say with me — " 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." I have explained to you how... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state. SEC. BRO. 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. Eld. Bro. List! list! I hear... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 748 pages
...animating all its details, and making existence itself a festival. Day by day do I feel that it is indeed Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose; But musical as is Apollo's lute. A state like mine of late has its peculiar privileges,—the first felt of which is its freedom from... | |
 | N. Sundararajan - Celebrities - 2003 - 156 pages
...eventually emerged as victorious. THE UNQUENCHABLE KNOWLEDGE SEEKER How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast ofnectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. - John Milton He would be leaving... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - History - 2007 - 537 pages
...cultivators — the nursery of letters, and the cradle of revelation. " 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 neetared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns." CHAPTER XIX, THE Tuath-de-danaans,... | |
 | 104 pages
...everyday in future. A MULTI-FACETED GENIUS Dr. SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo 's lute, And a perpetual feast ofnectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton... | |
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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. 
