 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
 | Andrew Becket - 1838 - 396 pages
...philosophy. But hear, in answer, the most sublime among our poets — 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. Levic. Well, well ; I will... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pages
...which he professed and we believe sincerely venerated, and which is truly — ' a divine philosophy, Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, . , But musical as is Apollo's lyre, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets !' THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I. — I. Horatius Restitutus... | |
 | David Mushet - 1839 - 358 pages
...chair, and tutelage of youth, who revel in such ingenious subleties. This is indeed philosophy, 11 Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical, as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets.' But man is an amazing creature! redolent of fine and subtle... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...79. ' Atque affligit humo divine particulam aurte !' Todd. 2 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, Where no crude surfeit reigns. 1 B. List, list, I hear 480... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1924 - 564 pages
...this was, it may well be said with one of old time — ' How charming is Divine Philosophy — • Not harsh and crabbed as dull 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
...the uniform. The tone with which he incants the lines from Comus: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as 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
...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... | |
 | Susan Haack - 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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