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... Satan points in his last desperate attempt to win Jesus is the Olive Grove of Academe , Plato's retirement , where ... Satan's compliment to Socrates : The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only , that he nothing knew ...
... Satan points in his last desperate attempt to win Jesus is the Olive Grove of Academe , Plato's retirement , where ... Satan's compliment to Socrates : The first and wisest of them all profess'd To know this only , that he nothing knew ...
Page 77
... Satan offers must be temptation , and the dramatic fiction therefore allows Milton to discuss only false goods . Within the frame of the debate , he can show the true summum bonum only by implication and by denial of the lesser goods ...
... Satan offers must be temptation , and the dramatic fiction therefore allows Milton to discuss only false goods . Within the frame of the debate , he can show the true summum bonum only by implication and by denial of the lesser goods ...
Page 123
... Satan hazards a reference to the first fall , assuring Jesus that the food he offers no knowledge works , at least of evil . ( 2. 371. ) And we are convinced that Milton did not think the knowl- edge won by Adam worth its price . This ...
... Satan hazards a reference to the first fall , assuring Jesus that the food he offers no knowledge works , at least of evil . ( 2. 371. ) And we are convinced that Milton did not think the knowl- edge won by Adam worth its price . This ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Plato and Milton Cornell paperbacks, ISSN 2574-707X Volume 35 of Cornell studies in English |
| Author | Irene Samuel |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press, 1965 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 182 pages |
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