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" 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 nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. Eld. Bro. List, list, I hear Some far off halloo break... "
Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author - Page 242
by John Milton - 1832
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British Theatre, Volume 11

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...
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Comus, a Mask

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...
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The Port Folio

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...
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The Correspondence of Theodosius and Constantia: Before and ..., Volumes 1-2

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...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures ..., Volume 16

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...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures ..., Volume 17

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...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

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,...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...
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1

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,...
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1

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,...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 1

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,...
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