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... glory in my own proper person , for all my toil and striving , yet sure I am that neither god nor man shall forbid me to honor and revere all my days those who have won such glory as this , or are happily striving toward it . To change ...
... glory in my own proper person , for all my toil and striving , yet sure I am that neither god nor man shall forbid me to honor and revere all my days those who have won such glory as this , or are happily striving toward it . To change ...
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... glory when we do well is above all glory . ( Tillyard , pp . 117-8 . ) The higher spirits are more tempted by praise , while the highest overcome the temptation . Because Milton keenly feels this superiority , he denies with emphasis ...
... glory when we do well is above all glory . ( Tillyard , pp . 117-8 . ) The higher spirits are more tempted by praise , while the highest overcome the temptation . Because Milton keenly feels this superiority , he denies with emphasis ...
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... glory . As the treatment is enlarged , Milton's shift of emphasis becomes clearer , while his essential agreement with Plato remains . From the first , Jesus desires high achievements . He recollects how , as a boy , my Spirit aspir'd ...
... glory . As the treatment is enlarged , Milton's shift of emphasis becomes clearer , while his essential agreement with Plato remains . From the first , Jesus desires high achievements . He recollects how , as a boy , my Spirit aspir'd ...
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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