Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... Heaven to Earth , where Milton after all wished us most steadily to fix our gaze , and discern in the struggle there the meaning it had for Milton , we see that , however little the words and acts resemble those of a Platonic dialogue ...
... Heaven to Earth , where Milton after all wished us most steadily to fix our gaze , and discern in the struggle there the meaning it had for Milton , we see that , however little the words and acts resemble those of a Platonic dialogue ...
Page 69
... Heaven descended to the low - rooft house Of Socrates . Milton has allowed the temptation to begin with the best of pagan thought , the philosophy of ' the wisest of the heathen . ' But , heathen still , the Socrates of the Dialogues ...
... Heaven descended to the low - rooft house Of Socrates . Milton has allowed the temptation to begin with the best of pagan thought , the philosophy of ' the wisest of the heathen . ' But , heathen still , the Socrates of the Dialogues ...
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... heaven with our wings of knowledge and specula- tion ; whereas , the highest mystery of a divine life here , and of perfect happiness hereafter , consisteth in nothing but mere obedi- ence to the Divine will . Happiness is that inward ...
... heaven with our wings of knowledge and specula- tion ; whereas , the highest mystery of a divine life here , and of perfect happiness hereafter , consisteth in nothing but mere obedi- ence to the Divine will . Happiness is that inward ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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