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
| William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...faculty he possessed. He justified the description of the poet, " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute !" Those who object to thig union of grace and beauty with reason, ire in fact weak-sighted people,... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. Second Brother. 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. Elder Brother. List, list... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. Sec. Br. 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, \Vhere no crude surfeit reigns. Ei. Br. List, list; I hear... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. Second Brother. How charming is divine Phi* losophy! 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. Elder Brother. List, list;... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...ifcvxfu have not : so here I rest it." CHAPTER HI. OF LOGIC. " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is APOLLO'S lute." MILTOJT. A HERE is not any part of learning so little understood, and of course so much neglected,... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 380 pages
...make the other speaker in the scene cry out, as in a fit of extasy, 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 very ideas which Lord... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...conversation ; but to raise our ideas of that charming philosophy, which is the subject of it— • " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute " MILTON. had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...carnal sensuality To a degen'rate and degraded state. T- Ki-a. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, Anil a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Б. Bro. List, list ! I hear... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...conversation ; but to raise our ideas of that charming philosophy, which is the subject of it — " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute " MILToN. had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed... | |
| Benjamin Smith Barton - 1812 - 392 pages
...the greatest of the English poets uses the word " nectared." " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual feast -qf nectar' d sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." MILTON. a. THE nectary... | |
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