 | William Kitchiner - Cooking, English - 1836 - 432 pages
...noxious; — and that every thing that is Nasty is wholesome. " 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 swcets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." — MILTON. Worthy William... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...mind first became directed to the prosecution of philosophical inquiry, — to him, at least — " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." After having diligently studied the works of some of the most eminent metaphysicians, the youthful... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836 - 182 pages
...of Religion winning to gaiety and youth. What has Milton said ? 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 nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.* Less than he has said of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...bitter bad judges in matters of philosophy, but with John Milton, " 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." In the main, ignorance... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - Philosophy - 1999 - 276 pages
...uses was presented to him, exclaimed with the enthusiasm of youth How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. But those happy days are past. Philosophy, by the slow victories of its own offspring, has been forced... | |
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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. 
