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. El. Br. List, list ; I hear Some far-off halloo break the silent air. Sec. Br. Methought so too ; what... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 521by John Milton - 1842 - 767 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 294 pages
...sensuality " To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. 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 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
...sensuality To a degen'rate and degraded state. 150 Y. BTO. " 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 neftar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." E. Bro. List, list ! I hear ome far-off halloo break... | |
| Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1801 - 674 pages
...heart. The effects of music are such, as to take the prisoned seal, and lap it in Elysium; philosophy is Musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. He makes his poem subservient to the claims of friendship; his Thyrsis, Who, with his soft pipe and... | |
| John Langhorne - English fiction - 1802 - 310 pages
...gladly be of opinion witk the Englifh poet, where he fays, How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed 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... | |
| 1803 - 444 pages
...heart. The effect* of music are such, as to take the prisoned soul, and lap it in Elysium; philosoply is Musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. He makes his poem subservient to the claims of friendship; his Thirsis, Who, with his soft pipe and... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...,ve the body that it lov'd, If by carnal sensuality Y. BRO. How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. E. BKO. List, list, I hear 480 Some far-off halloo break the silent air. Y. BRO. Methoughtso too; what... | |
| Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 378 pages
...choréis, Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen. In Cornus. How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as 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
...choreis, Immortale melos, et inenarrabile carmen. In Comus. i How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as 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
...he possessed. He justified the description of the poet, " How charming is divine philosophy ! " Not harsh and crabbed as 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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