Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 105
... learning to those of sense , and Milton twice adopts the opposition in order to magnify knowledge in the scale of human good . Milton , who took ' intent study ' as his ' portion in this life , ' spoke of the joy he himself felt in ...
... learning to those of sense , and Milton twice adopts the opposition in order to magnify knowledge in the scale of human good . Milton , who took ' intent study ' as his ' portion in this life , ' spoke of the joy he himself felt in ...
Page 106
... learning : But let not your mind rest content to be bounded and cabined by the limits which encompass the earth , but let it wander be- yond the confines of the world , and at the last attain the summit of all human wisdom and learn to ...
... learning : But let not your mind rest content to be bounded and cabined by the limits which encompass the earth , but let it wander be- yond the confines of the world , and at the last attain the summit of all human wisdom and learn to ...
Page 107
... learning , ignorant of all correct doctrine , eager for pay , careless of the true end of instruction , they repre- sent the very antithesis of the scholars whose company Mil- ton wished to join , and their fancied erudition the ...
... learning , ignorant of all correct doctrine , eager for pay , careless of the true end of instruction , they repre- sent the very antithesis of the scholars whose company Mil- ton wished to join , and their fancied erudition the ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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