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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 nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. "
Comus, a Mask - Page ix
by John Milton - 1797 - 66 pages
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...his eloquent words flowed as rapidly as his thoughts, and he gave his hearers good reason to exclaim, How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. He has well described the conversation and manner of his friend Leigh Hunt. " Hunt has a fine vinous...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...bis eloquent words flowed as rapidly as his thoughts, and he gave his hearers good reason to exclaim, How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed...dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. He has well described the conversation and manner of his friend Leigh Hunt. " Hunt has a fine vinous...
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Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature

P. Adams Sitney - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 284 pages
...stereotype we are apt to associate with the uniform. The tone with which he incants the lines from Comus: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and...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...
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Teaching What We Do: Essays by Amherst College Faculty

Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - Education - 1992 - 266 pages
...students will see that not only does it beat watching wrestling on TV, it is worthy of Milton's words: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as in Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. READING...
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Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

Bhikhu C. Parekh - 1993 - 600 pages
...philosophy the very reverse of that so justly, as well as beautifully, described in Milton's Comus: 'How charming is divine philosophy Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose — ' " 48 During the course of his pilgrim's progress, Orestes A. Brownson took up many of the popular...
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New Directions in Economic Methodology

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...
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Milton: The life

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 hear someone approaching,...
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Poetry and the Practical

William Gilmore Simms - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 182 pages
...praiseworthy 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...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...his tomb in Highgate Cemetery, London. 10 How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb'd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Second brother,...
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Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays

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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