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 ixby John Milton - 1797 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| Lyon (France) - 1870 - 516 pages
...l'appel de sa bien-aimée. C'est ainsi qu'il trouvait son bonheur dans : « Divine Philosophy, Not harah and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpétuai feasl of nectared sweets, Where no erude surfait reigns » (1). Parler des distinctions... | |
| Thomas Smith (of Liverpool.) - Arithmetic - 1835 - 180 pages
...THE DISTRIBUTION, AND THE ARRANGEMENT QUANTITIES, LINEAR, SUPERFICIAL, AND SOLID. BY THOMAS SMITH. Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose; But musical as is Apollo's,! ute. MILTON. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXXXV. .... | |
| William Kitchiner - Cooking, English - 1836 - 432 pages
...that every thing that is Nice must he noxious; — and that every thing that is Nasty is wholesome. " How charming is Divine Philosophy ! Not harsh, and...is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd swcets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." — MILTON. Worthy William Shakspeare declared he never found... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...whereof (') He had already, in Comus, described the delight derivable from the study of philosophy : " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns." (8) Nowhere has the material frame-work of Milton's... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. See. Br. How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh, and...musical as is Apollo's lute; And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. El. Br. List, list ; I hear Some far-off halloo break... | |
| William Leete Stone - American fiction - 1836 - 234 pages
...much attention to this sublime and beautiful study, which so enraptured the immortal Milton : — ' How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no rude surfeit reigns.' It is to such... | |
| 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 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... | |
| Joseph Jones - Devotional literature - 1837 - 362 pages
....nM>-.qHARACTER OF RELIGION. ' ; •".'•<" u•,.•ir .P.-- " How charming is divine Philosophy ! ^ Not.harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, , . But musical...Apollo's lute, . . •..•.. And a perpetual feast of nectarcd sweets, . . . bnr. .•\yjjg,.,, no cru(je surfeit reigns."— Milton. I 10.. „ : " Christianity... | |
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