Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 116
... fall a necessary prelude to the highest happiness ; but ✓ they are deceived , like our original parents , by the argu- ment that good can be known only by experience of evil . Undeceived , Milton does his best to warn the reader . Nor ...
... fall a necessary prelude to the highest happiness ; but ✓ they are deceived , like our original parents , by the argu- ment that good can be known only by experience of evil . Undeceived , Milton does his best to warn the reader . Nor ...
Page 133
... fall , the idea [ idea ] of that evil event , or of the fall of man , was suggested to God from an extraneous source . ( 14.79 . ) * 11 Genus does not properly communicate essence to species ( since in itself it is in truth nothing ...
... fall , the idea [ idea ] of that evil event , or of the fall of man , was suggested to God from an extraneous source . ( 14.79 . ) * 11 Genus does not properly communicate essence to species ( since in itself it is in truth nothing ...
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... fall from right to wrong desire , being less fully intended than Adam's , is more easily repaired . Samson , like Adam , forgot at the critical moment where true good really lay ; but unlike Adam he never argued himself into believing ...
... fall from right to wrong desire , being less fully intended than Adam's , is more easily repaired . Samson , like Adam , forgot at the critical moment where true good really lay ; but unlike Adam he never argued himself into believing ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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