 | 1831 - 550 pages
...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...suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute And a perpetual round of nectared sweets." ART. II. — 1. An Essay on the Operation of Poison upon the Living Body.... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...ever-new delight. On such occasions, he used, with our Platonic Bard, to exclaim, ' How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull...musical, as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar' d sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.' In the weak state of his eyes, it was his habit to... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1832 - 336 pages
...quiet, gentlemanlike young man, who, like " Philosophy," as praised by the brother in Comus, was — " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." The tutor was, in very sooth, in the most modern acceptation of the term, " musical ;" and his flute,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lister - 1832 - 230 pages
...quiet, gentlemanlike young man, who, like " Philosophy," as praised by the brother in Comus, was— " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo'i lute." B 2 The tutor was, in very sooth, in the most modern acceptation of the term, " musical... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 142 pages
...of play, grows up with the love of knowledge for its own sake, and finds it " Not harsh and rugged, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. " It is thus that men become the intellectual benefactors... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 610 pages
...pleases.' Ib. c. 4. 3 The lines of Milton are familiar to us : How charming is DIVINE I'HILOSOPHY ! 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. Corn's. It has begun in this respect a rivalry with... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 pages
...pleases.' Ib. c. 4. 3 The lines of Milton are familiar to us : How charming is DIVINE PHIIXHWPHY ! 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. COM us. t It has begun in this respect a rivalry with... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...Sir Thomas Browne. SIR THOMAS BROWNE. BT HENRY T. TUCKERMAN. How charming is divine philosophy ! Nol harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where DO crude surfeit reigns. Cowitf. There is something winsome as well as venerable... | |
 | 1834 - 764 pages
...endowments of moral and cultivated man. Never have we felt so vividly as in his society, " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose. But musical, as is Appollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit cloys.'" It was our... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. 475 Sec. Br. 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. El. Br.... | |
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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. 
