| Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1831 - 570 páginas
...Hill, can tell, How well they fought, how gloriously they fell. Z. THE LIMPING PHILOSOPHER. NO. II. How charming is divine philosophy '. Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, But musical as is Apollo's lute, Where no crude... | |
| William Phelan - 1832 - 454 páginas
...he turned with ever-new delight. On such occasions, he used, with our Platonic Bard, to exclaim, ' How charming is divine Philosophy ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.' In the weak state of his eyes, it was his habit to read, with the eyes of a friend. In this manner,... | |
| Thomas Anthony Methuen - 1832 - 352 páginas
...Mr. Beachcroft would scarcely be unwilling to apply to him the language of the bard of Paradise:— " 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." CHAPTER X. His retirement... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 262 páginas
...the mind, contemplation will be of service—if of the nerves, a ride will be equally beneficial "' How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,'" " You are improving," returned Lady Mandeville. " I dare say by the time your cousin, Henry... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...delightful. Marcus Aarelists. How charming is divine philosopby ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull tools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar' d sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.— Milton's Comua. acts. PHILIP of Macedon takes possession... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 142 páginas
...hours of play, grows up with the lov< knowledge for its own sake, and finds it " Not harsh and rugged, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns." It is thus that men become the intellectual benefactors... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...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. COM us. Hume, in his Life, says, " My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother,... | |
| William Wilberforce - 1835 - 356 páginas
...ESQ. AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, REV. DANIEL WILSON, AM Late Vicar of Islington, now Bishop of Calcutta. How charming is DIVINE PHILOSOPHY ! Not harsh and...of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. MILTON. Search the SCTipturea!— John, Y. S». KEY AND BIDDLE. 1835. Harvard Cell&jro Library Gift... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1835 - 462 páginas
...us. It is for us to use rightly the treasures we possess ; * The lines of Milton are familiar to us: How charming is DIVINE PHILOSOPHY ! Not harsh and...dull fools suppose, But musical, as is Apollo's lute: Where no crude surfeit reigns." CoKua. And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, t Night Thoughts,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1835 - 550 páginas
...imagine that the result must be, as it is represented in the enthusiastic language of Milton, " Not rough 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." If his voice fall less sweetly on the sensitive ear... | |
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