Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 53
... seek to improve human life - if the poet under- stands his own powers and the use to be made of them . Thus Milton : These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some ( though ...
... seek to improve human life - if the poet under- stands his own powers and the use to be made of them . Thus Milton : These abilities , wheresoever they be found , are the inspired gift of God , rarely bestowed , but yet to some ( though ...
Page 72
... seek to balk undisciplined appetite , the ' many - headed monster , ' which has been strengthened by feeding , kills off every bet- ter impulse , and thereafter lives for itself alone . ) Whenever Plato allows pleasure to be a good at ...
... seek to balk undisciplined appetite , the ' many - headed monster , ' which has been strengthened by feeding , kills off every bet- ter impulse , and thereafter lives for itself alone . ) Whenever Plato allows pleasure to be a good at ...
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... of love in action . But what precisely does love seek to possess and know ? Plato had said that the object of love is an Idea , the perfect Beauty , the whole and complete Good . Christianity said that God 167 THE DOCTRINE OF LOVE.
... of love in action . But what precisely does love seek to possess and know ? Plato had said that the object of love is an Idea , the perfect Beauty , the whole and complete Good . Christianity said that God 167 THE DOCTRINE OF LOVE.
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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