Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 48
... Beauty . Ceres never sought her daughter Proserpine ( as the legend tells ) with greater ardor than I do this Idea of Beauty , like some image of loveliness ; ever pursuing it , by day and by night , in every shape and form ( ' for many ...
... Beauty . Ceres never sought her daughter Proserpine ( as the legend tells ) with greater ardor than I do this Idea of Beauty , like some image of loveliness ; ever pursuing it , by day and by night , in every shape and form ( ' for many ...
Page 152
... beauty to spiritual , until he finally wins sight of Beauty absolute , and there brings to birth the realities of knowledge and virtue which constitute the happiness of man . Love thus defined is the generic longing for every good ; its ...
... beauty to spiritual , until he finally wins sight of Beauty absolute , and there brings to birth the realities of knowledge and virtue which constitute the happiness of man . Love thus defined is the generic longing for every good ; its ...
Page 156
... beauty charms my heart . ( Ibid . , p . 150. ) But with the letter he wrote to Diodati in 1637 , his tone changes . Now it is no longer physical beauty that draws ✓ him , but the inward beauty of the noble soul which , Plato had taught ...
... beauty charms my heart . ( Ibid . , p . 150. ) But with the letter he wrote to Diodati in 1637 , his tone changes . Now it is no longer physical beauty that draws ✓ him , but the inward beauty of the noble soul which , Plato had taught ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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