Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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Page 72
... senses however obtained , but what delights the best man , whose pleasure is a good and a test of the good in every other thing . In this sense pleasure and happiness may be identified , and Plato can deny that the tyranny of desire ...
... senses however obtained , but what delights the best man , whose pleasure is a good and a test of the good in every other thing . In this sense pleasure and happiness may be identified , and Plato can deny that the tyranny of desire ...
Page 73
... senses to be either the ushers or interpreters of heavenly mysteries , save where our Lord himself in his sacraments ordained . ( 3. 1-2 . ) He uses the imagery of Phaedrus to describe the effect that sensuous pleasures have had upon ...
... senses to be either the ushers or interpreters of heavenly mysteries , save where our Lord himself in his sacraments ordained . ( 3. 1-2 . ) He uses the imagery of Phaedrus to describe the effect that sensuous pleasures have had upon ...
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... sense , like the senses themselves , are of God's making , and are appointed to be the due satisfaction of natural desire . Only the perversion of values whereby the purer feeds the grosser results in the Comus - like per- version of ...
... sense , like the senses themselves , are of God's making , and are appointed to be the due satisfaction of natural desire . Only the perversion of values whereby the purer feeds the grosser results in the Comus - like per- version of ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
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