Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 63
... brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior , ( And what he brings , what needs he elsewhere seek ) Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains , Deep verst in books and shallow in himself . ( 4. 286-92 , 318-27 . ) Intolerable as the ...
... brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior , ( And what he brings , what needs he elsewhere seek ) Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains , Deep verst in books and shallow in himself . ( 4. 286-92 , 318-27 . ) Intolerable as the ...
Page 152
... brings order out of chaos and peace to the hearts of men . If Plato intended these speeches to be entirely super- seded by that of Socrates , he would hardly have composed them all with the excellence of structure and phrase that has ...
... brings order out of chaos and peace to the hearts of men . If Plato intended these speeches to be entirely super- seded by that of Socrates , he would hardly have composed them all with the excellence of structure and phrase that has ...
Page 154
... brings happiness when understood . This belief sheds light on Milton's other uses of the Platonic teaching . The first mysterious element in love , as Eryximachus and Socrates after him had explained , is its harmonizing power ✓that ...
... brings happiness when understood . This belief sheds light on Milton's other uses of the Platonic teaching . The first mysterious element in love , as Eryximachus and Socrates after him had explained , is its harmonizing power ✓that ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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