| Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...a human body. Isocrates. How charming is divine philosopby ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull tools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual...nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.— Milton's Comua. acts. PHILIP of Macedon takes possession of Phocis upon the twenty-seventh of the month... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...none so permanent as the pleasures of the understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 152. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. COMCS. Hume, in his Life, says, " My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother,... | |
| Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 pages
...pleases.' Ib. c. 4. 3 The lines of Milton are familiar to us : How charming is DIVINE I'HILOSOPHY ! 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. Corn's. It has begun in this respect a rivalry with... | |
| Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...pleases.' Ib. c. 4. 3 The lines of Milton are familiar to us : How charming is DIVINE PHIIXHWPHY ! 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. COM us. t It has begun in this respect a rivalry with... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...Sir Thomas Browne. SIR THOMAS BROWNE. BT HENRY T. TUCKERMAN. How charming is divine philosophy ! Nol harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where DO crude surfeit reigns. Cowitf. There is something winsome as well as venerable... | |
| William Wilberforce - Christianity - 1835 - 388 pages
...CHRISTIANITY. BY WILLIAM WlLBERFORCE/Es<t FROM A LATE LONDON EDITION. Search the Scriptures.— JOHN, 5 : 39. How charming is DIVINE PHILOSOPHY' " Not harsh and...musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of ncctar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns — MILTON. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY LEAVITT, LORD, ft... | |
| sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1836 - 182 pages
...of Religion winning to gaiety and youth. What has Milton said ? How charming is divine philosophy I Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose; But...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.* Less than he has said of Philosophy, I would not, nor would he, say of Religion. But let us remember,... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...body that it lov'd, And link'd itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state. See. Br. How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh,...musical as is Apollo's lute; And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. El. Br. List, list ; I hear Some far-off halloo break... | |
| William Kitchiner - Cooking, English - 1836 - 432 pages
...that every thing that is Nice must he noxious; — and that every thing that is Nasty is wholesome. " How charming is Divine Philosophy ! Not harsh, and...is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd swcets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." — MILTON. Worthy William Shakspeare declared he never found... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...whereof (') He had already, in Comus, described the delight derivable from the study of philosophy : " 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." (8) Nowhere has the material frame-work of Milton's... | |
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