 | Author of Art of improving the voice - Hair - 1825 - 280 pages
...and rugged parts of the road as smooth and level as we can, and cause you to exclaim with Milton — How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lute. COMUS. I.— ANATOMY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE HAIR. As it is impossible to understand the nature and... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...subject is forcibly corrected by our great, and learned, and philo. sophical Poet — How charmingf is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull...fools suppose, But musical as is' Apollo's lute, And a perpetnal feast of nectar'd sweet, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Milton's Comus. Men of Phlegm. These... | |
 | James Easton - 1825 - 116 pages
...to which his life had been dedicated. Philosophy is shown to be Not harsh and crabbed as dull foot] suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of necttr'd sweets, Where DO rude surfeits reign. The last work which this great man published was Spring,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. SECOND BROTHER. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. ELDER BROTHER. List, list, I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. SECOND BROTHER. For certain... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 464 pages
...would rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went out by shoals when he began to speak. They coughed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Rationalism - 1826 - 462 pages
...would rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went out by shoals when he began to speak. They coughed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Aesthetics - 1826 - 458 pages
...would rather " hear a cat mew or an axle-tree grate," than hear a man talk philosophy by the hour — Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. He was emphatically called the Dinner-Bell. They went out by shoals when he began to speak. They coughed... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...state. SK. Br. How charming is divine philosophy ! N*M harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, Bui musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Whnr DO crude surfeit reigns. List, list ; I hear Some far off halloo break the silent air. 481 Ac.... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 342 pages
...; it is with us through life and deserts us not in death, ever at hand to protect and to bless. So charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed...of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns. Such was the philosophy of Xenophon, now listening to the lessons of his divine master ; now toiling... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 530 pages
...study of Political Economy, important as we have shown it to be to the well-being of mankind, is " Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." As an instance of the interest which may be communicated to topics of this kind, by a dexterous method... | |
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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. 
