Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1965 - 182 pages |
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... wisest of men . The references to Plato and Soc- rates in Milton's Academic Exercises and Elegies might have come from any one of similar training . They are vague , reveal no special insight into the teaching of Plato , and have no ...
... wisest of men . The references to Plato and Soc- rates in Milton's Academic Exercises and Elegies might have come from any one of similar training . They are vague , reveal no special insight into the teaching of Plato , and have no ...
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... wisest minds throughout the ages have approved ; whensoever , I say , I find such a man , to him I find myself impelled forthwith to cleave . And if I am fated , either by nature or destiny , never to attain this high honor and glory in ...
... wisest minds throughout the ages have approved ; whensoever , I say , I find such a man , to him I find myself impelled forthwith to cleave . And if I am fated , either by nature or destiny , never to attain this high honor and glory in ...
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... Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issu'd forth Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools Of Academics old and new . ( 4. 272-8 . ) Jesus had previously said : Poor Socrates ( who next more memorable ? ) By what he taught and ...
... Wisest of men ; from whose mouth issu'd forth Mellifluous streams that water'd all the schools Of Academics old and new . ( 4. 272-8 . ) Jesus had previously said : Poor Socrates ( who next more memorable ? ) By what he taught and ...
Contents
Milton as a Student of Plato | 3 |
Academics Old and New | 27 |
Himself a True Poem | 45 |
Copyright | |
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