 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
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 342 pages
...mind, contemplation will be of service — if of the nerves, a ride will be equally beneficial." " ' How charming is divine philosophy'! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,' " replied Mr. Spenser. " You are improving," returned Lady Mandeville. " I dare-say by the time your... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 348 pages
...the mind, contemplation will be of service—if of the nerves, a ride will be equally beneficial." "' How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,'" replied Mr. Spenser. " You are improving," returned Lady Mandeville. " I dare-say by the time your... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 454 pages
...he turned with ever-new delight. On such occasions, he used, with our Platonic Bard, to exclaim, ' 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.' In the weak state of his... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. 475 2 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. 1 B. List, list, I hear 4*>... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 512 pages
...the mind, contemplation will be of service — if of the nerves, a ride will be equally beneficiaU "'How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,' " replied Mr. Spencer. " You are improving," returned Lady Mandeville. " I dare say by the time your... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...none so permanent as the pleasures of the understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 152. 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. COMCS. Hume, in his Life,... | |
 | 1834 - 764 pages
...highest 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
...that it lov'd, And 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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