 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...delicious To a well-govern' d and wise appetite. Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch...abstinence ! Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth 7[° With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...not delicious To a well-govern 'd and wise appetite. Com. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ear* To those budge doctors of the stoic fur, And fetch...bounties forth. With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1863 - 140 pages
...delicious To a well.govem'd and wise appetite. COMUS. О foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To these budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch their precepts...Abstinence. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...delicious To a well-governed and wise appetite. Comus. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur, And fetch...bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969), pp. 130-140. 17. The question of Comus ("Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?") still rattles in the head of the Adam of Paradise Lost. Geoffrey Hartman points to Adam's vexation... | |
 | John Hollander - Poetry - 1990 - 280 pages
...play by Milton's Comus, attempting to seduce the virgin Lady by a fallacious argument from design: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...wise appetite. COMUS O foolishness of men! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic116 fur, And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub,...Abstinence! Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth 710 With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging... | |
 | Jonathan Sawday - Art - 1995 - 382 pages
...an invitation to possess nature, to master and hence control the superfluity of the natural world: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth. With such a full and unwithdrawing hand. Covering the seas with spawn innumerable. But all to please, and sate the curious taste? And set to... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...through their Shakespearean analogues. Nature, like Shakespeare's imagination, is riotously fecund: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odors, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the Seas with spawn innumerable, But all... | |
 | Jonathan Sawday - Art - 1995 - 382 pages
...an invitation to possess nature, to master and hence control the superfluity of the natural world: Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth, With such a full and uiiwithdrawing hand, Covering the seas with spawn innumerable. But all to please, and sate the curious... | |
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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste... 
