 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 Retrospective Review - Page 741820Full view - About this book
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 374 pages
...though it corrupted some), he should make the other speaker in the scene cry out, as in a fit of extasy, 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 sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns — V The very ideas which... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...that it lov d, And link'd itself in carnal sensuality To a degen'rate and degraded state. T- Ki-a. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 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... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 390 pages
...nectarine." Thus,in the following lines, the greatest of the English poets uses the word " nectared." " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and...fools suppose, " But musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." MILTON. a. THE nectary... | |
 | Benjamin Smith Barton - Science - 1812 - 392 pages
...nectarine." Thus,in the following lines, the greatest of the English poets uses the word " nectared." " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...that it lov'd, And lii.kM itself by carnal sensuality To a degem- rate and degradfd state. 4# Sec. Br. 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 sweets, "Where no crude surfeit reigns. £/. llr. List. list; I hear... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...because it was not the only faculty he possessed, lie justified the description of the poet, \. > - " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and...fools suppose, "But musical as is Apollo's lute!'' '. Those who object to this union of grace and beauty with reason, are in fact weak sighted people,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...' Ad Patron; w. 73, &c. t In the same spirit, the Second Brother in Comus (476— 480) exclaims, ' 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 sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.' The honour of Milton's early... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Aid link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. §7. Philosophy. MILTON. 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 sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns ! § 8. True Literty. MILTON.... | |
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