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 63
... seek ) Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains , Deep verst in books and shallow in himself . ( 4. 286-92 , 318-27 . ) Intolerable as the doctrine sounds , and especially in- tolerable from Milton , who could not have written even these ...
... seek ) Uncertain and unsettl'd still remains , Deep verst in books and shallow in himself . ( 4. 286-92 , 318-27 . ) Intolerable as the doctrine sounds , and especially in- tolerable from Milton , who could not have written even these ...
Page 167
... 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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