 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...beneath the touch of vice. The second brother then exclains, " How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." And Socrates in Platof had before him spoken of philosophy as being the noblest music 'Qs The spirit,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 153. 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. COMUS. Hume, in his Life,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1839 - 1084 pages
...submit to it ; and then it is that even youth can discover " How charming is divine philosophy, Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." Ik One consequence of this was a resolution (how often made, and how often broken, by many besides... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...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 Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Susan Haack - 2000 - 246 pages
...which is this gentleman'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. (Actually, he has it wrong; it was Milton, not Shakespeare.)16 And then there is the simply playful,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1999 - 276 pages
...was presented to him, exclaimed with the enthusiasm of youth How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. But those happy days are past. Philosophy, by the slow victories of its own offspring, has been forced... | |
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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. 
