 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 页
...permanent as the pleasures of the understanding. See Bacon's observations in note, ante 104. 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.... | |
 | Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 页
...truly such, we may affirm, as Milton does of the fountain from which it springs:— " 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 ncctared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns."... | |
 | Arnold Isenberg - 1988 - 362 页
...Sullivan, who thought it was knowledge that had to be dignified by comparison, and who wrote: How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute — not thinking it disgraceful to interpret knowledge as a food of the... | |
 | 1879 - 718 页
...without issue, at Portsmouth, embarking for Brittany, (2.) Milton, Comus, 1. 476 seq :— " 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 sweet), Where no crude surfeit reigns."... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 页
...on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.' 479-80 Cf. Comus 475-9: 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 surfet raigns.... | |
 | Huguenot Society of London - 1924 - 564 页
...philosophy when inspired by Urania, as this was, it may well be said with one of old time — ' How charming is Divine Philosophy — • Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose — But musical as is Apollo's lute.' And now, even though it may be regarded as a grave breach of decorum,... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 页
...apt to associate with the uniform. The tone with which he incants the lines from Comus: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute . . . (11. 476-78) argues against the message he asserts; in this context... | |
 | Richard Todd, Douglas C. Wilson - 1992 - 266 页
...see that not only does it beat watching wrestling on TV, it is worthy of Milton's words: How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed as dull fools suppose But musical as in Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1999 - 276 页
...when an instance of its uses was presented to him, exclaimed with the enthusiasm of youth How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. But those happy days are past. Philosophy, by the slow victories of its... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 1989 - 440 页
...attested before a magistrate. We sought religious conviction by a more difficult research: How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.402 Now that Ireland was substituting traditions of government for the... | |
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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. 
