 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...Mrs. Peachum, that the poets are bitter bad judges in matters of philosophy, but with John Milton, " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." In the main, ignorance is never bliss, for knowledge is only understanding the properties of creatures,... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 396 pages
...This is not the character of philosophy. But hear, in answer, the most sublime among our poets — How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Levic. Well, well ; I will leave to you, pedant as you are, your bookish dreams. Indulge your sombre... | |
 | Andrew Becket - Great Britain - 1838 - 320 pages
...This is not the character of philosophy. But hear, in answer, the most sublime among our poets — How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Levic. Well, well ; I will leave to you, pedant as you are, your bookish dreams. Indulge your sombre... | |
 | William Adam - 1838 - 300 pages
...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 - English literature - 1838 - 754 pages
...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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...none so permanent as the pleasures of the understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 153. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. COMUS. Hume, in his Life, says, " My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...none so permanent as the pleasures of the understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 153. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed...Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, i Where no crude surfeit reigns. COMUS. Hume, in his Life, says, " My family, however, was not rich,... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 350 pages
...for an academic chair, and tutelage of youth, who revel in such ingenious subleties. This is indeed philosophy, " Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools...musical, as is Apollo's lute, And. a perpetual feast of nectared sweets.' But man is an amazing creature ! redolent of fine and subtle contrivances ! There... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...which God had enwrapped it fall off beneath the touch of vice. The second brother then exclains, " How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed,...fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute." And Socrates in Platof had before him spoken of philosophy as being the noblest music 'Qs The spirit, in... | |
 | David Mushet - Animal welfare - 1839 - 358 pages
...chair, and tutelage of youth, who revel in such ingenious subleties. This is indeed philosophy, 11 Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But...musical, as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets.' But man is an amazing creature! redolent of fine and subtle contrivances! There is... | |
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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. 
