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 nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Self Culture - Seite 1101899Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gilmore Simms - 1998 - 182 Seiten
...praiseworthy 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... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...his tomb in Highgate Cemetery, London. 10 How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb'd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. JOHN MlLTON, (1608-1674) British poet. Second brother, in "Comus," I. 476-80 (1637). 1 1 Bishop Berkeley... | |
| Susan Haack - 2000 - 246 Seiten
...they are not abstruse, arid, and abstract, in which case, ... it will be as Shakespeare said . . . "Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute," . . . (5.537). The reader may find the matter [of my "Minute Logic"] so dry, husky and innutritious... | |
| William Butler Yeats - 1989 - 440 Seiten
...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... | |
| John Henry Newman - 2001 - 492 Seiten
...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...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." The Athenians then exercised Influence by discarding Law. It was their boast that they had found out... | |
| Mike Sanders - 2001 - 632 Seiten
...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...musical, as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeits reigns." Such were the outpourings of a mind that revelled... | |
| Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 Seiten
...language of the first human cultivators — the nursery of letters, and the cradle of revelation. " How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectared sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns." 252 CHAPTER XIX. THE Tuath-de-danaans, or Mahabadeans, being thus far proved as the first occupiers... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 2002 - 332 Seiten
...language, as seems, scarcely less than the writings of Plato, to realize those lines of Milton: — How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed,...as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.1 Clifford's talk, too, about wealth, has a beautiful and readily to be disentangled intermixture... | |
| David Norbrook - 2002 - 362 Seiten
...brother praises 'divine philosophy' because it is Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, Hut musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast...of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. (11. 475-4) The Lady's prophetic voice is so powerful because it is informed by this musical quality.... | |
| James Richard Moore - 2002 - 456 Seiten
...right, and for understanding science. Of the history of ideas I would still say what Milton said of philosophy: ' . . . not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, but musical as Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns'. At home in... | |
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