Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 11
... divine volumes ' have supplied him with matter for work yet unborn . And now , be it noted , the epithet ' divine ' is no longer merely conventional , but granted by a disciple to the ' abstracted sublimities ' into which he has himself ...
... divine volumes ' have supplied him with matter for work yet unborn . And now , be it noted , the epithet ' divine ' is no longer merely conventional , but granted by a disciple to the ' abstracted sublimities ' into which he has himself ...
Page 48
... divine . What ardent maker of verses will deny the compliment ? To Mil- ton , fresh from rereading Phaedrus , the language of divine inspiration was highly acceptable . Thus he writes to his close friend Diodati in the letter previously ...
... divine . What ardent maker of verses will deny the compliment ? To Mil- ton , fresh from rereading Phaedrus , the language of divine inspiration was highly acceptable . Thus he writes to his close friend Diodati in the letter previously ...
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... divine , which more than aught else reveals our ethereal origin and heavenly race . Nothing so much as its origin does grace to the human mind , possessing yet some sacred traces of Promethean fire . ( Ibid . , pp . 143-5 . ) But though ...
... divine , which more than aught else reveals our ethereal origin and heavenly race . Nothing so much as its origin does grace to the human mind , possessing yet some sacred traces of Promethean fire . ( Ibid . , pp . 143-5 . ) But though ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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