Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... least of all for his Commonwealth , in the book of his Laws ' ( 4. 316 ) . Since Milton elsewhere often uses the authority of that very work to support his own arguments , we may suppose that not the Laws in its entirety , but only its ...
... least of all for his Commonwealth , in the book of his Laws ' ( 4. 316 ) . Since Milton elsewhere often uses the authority of that very work to support his own arguments , we may suppose that not the Laws in its entirety , but only its ...
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... least denounced . And Milton's words are not a very serious charge for a poet to bring against a philosopher ; for ... least gen- erally read of Plato's works . If the references he took from Downham's commentary on Ramus should not be ...
... least denounced . And Milton's words are not a very serious charge for a poet to bring against a philosopher ; for ... least gen- erally read of Plato's works . If the references he took from Downham's commentary on Ramus should not be ...
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... least one particular , for personal habit . The reader will note in the appended table how often he comments on the Socratic jest . Sometimes , indeed , we could wish he had learned from Plato the gentleness that invariably tempers ...
... least one particular , for personal habit . The reader will note in the appended table how often he comments on the Socratic jest . Sometimes , indeed , we could wish he had learned from Plato the gentleness that invariably tempers ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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