 | William Kitchiner - 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...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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1924 - 564 pages
...of philosophy when inspired by Urania, as this was, it may well be said with one of old time — ' How charming is Divine Philosophy — • Not harsh...fools suppose — But musical as is Apollo's lute.' And now, even though it may be regarded as a grave breach of decorum, I am going to tear asunder the... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 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... | |
 | Roger Backhouse - 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 Gilmore Simms - 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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 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... | |
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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. 
