 | William Adam - 1838 - 300 σελίδες
...the author's excuse for digressing so largely under the shade of this " fine classic tree" : — " How charming is Divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and...musical, as is Apollo's lute : And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." Before quitting its ample shade, I would just point... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1838 - 754 σελίδες
...fruits, ' Glory to God in the highest on earth peace, * and good-will to men ;' and which is indeed a ' divine philosophy.' Not harsh and crabbed, as dull...suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feust of ncctar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. We regret the omission the more, because,... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - 784 σελίδες
...myself? Give me this credit, and you will not think that on my own accou[n]t I repeat Milton's lines "How charming is divine Philosophy Not harsh and crabbed...dull fools suppose But musical as is Apollo's lute." The last passage especially is crucial. The speculation that "poetry is not so fine a thing as philosophy"... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1924 - 564 σελίδες
...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...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 veil... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 σελίδες
...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 hear someone approaching,... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1989 - 440 σελίδες
...of Christ attested before a magistrate. We sought religious conviction by a more difficult research: How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed,...as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.402 Now that Ireland was substituting traditions of government for the rhetoric of agitation our... | |
 | Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 σελίδες
...of Woman from The New Moral World, 22 June 1839, p. 549. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD. Sir, "How charming is divine philosophy. Not harsh and...perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeits reigns." Such were the outpourings of a mind that revelled in the delight of mental and moral... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 2001 - 492 σελίδες
...it may for a while carry it away captive. Such is that " divine Philosophy," in the poet's words, " 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." The Athenians then exercised Influence by discarding... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 σελίδες
...language of the first human cultivators — the nursery of letters, and the cradle of revelation. " How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and...musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns." 252 CHAPTER XIX. THE Tuath-de-danaans, or Mahabadeans,... | |
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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. 
