 To a degenerate and degraded state. Sec. Bro. 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. Eld. Bro. List! list!...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 182by John Milton - 1893Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...that it lov'd, " And link'd itself in carnal sensuality " To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. Bro. " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh...musical as is Apollo's lute, " And a perpetual feast of neclar'd sweets, " Where no crude surfeit reigns." E. Bro. List, list! I hear Some far-off halloo break... | |
 | John Milton - English drama - 1797 - 484 pages
...it lov'd, And link'd itself in carnal sensuality To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. BTO. " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of neftar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." E. Bro. List, list ! I hear ome far-off halloo break... | |
 | John Langhorne - English fiction - 1802 - 310 pages
...poets; for with regard to philosophy, I would gladly be of opinion witk the Englifh poet, where he fays, How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lule ! : .,- :. I would willingly perfuade myfelf that the beft poets are capable of inftrudting us... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...apply to the preceptor of Alexander, what Milton has said of the doctrines of his tutor, Plato— " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose; But a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." GOMUS. A World of Wit, containing... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...and sepulchers, sitting by a new-made grave, ,ve the body that it lov'd, If by carnal sensuality Y. BRO. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh,...musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. E. BKO. List, list, I hear 480 Some far-off halloo... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 378 pages
...Nunc quoque sydereis intercinit ipse choréis, Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen. In Cornus. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. So in Paradise Regain ed, Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk, Smooth on the tongue discours'd,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 384 pages
...Nunc quoque sydereis intcrcinit ipse choreis, Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen. In Comus. i How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. So in Paradise Regained, Hard arc the ways of truth, and rough to walk, Smooth on the tongue discours'd,... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...if you have not: so here reft it." CHAP. m. 1 OF LOGIC. " How charming is divine philosophy! t " Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, " But musical as is APOLLO'S lute." MILTOH. J_ HERE is not any part of learning so little understood, and of course so much negle£ted,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...real, because it was not the only faculty he possessed. He justified the description of the poet, " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and...dull 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,... | |
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