Plato and MiltonCornell University Press, 1947 - 182 pages |
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... never sought her daughter Proserpine ( as the legend tells ) with greater ardor than I do this Idea of Beauty , like some image of loveliness ; ever pursuing it , by day and by night , in every shape and form ( ' for many forms there ...
... never sought her daughter Proserpine ( as the legend tells ) with greater ardor than I do this Idea of Beauty , like some image of loveliness ; ever pursuing it , by day and by night , in every shape and form ( ' for many forms there ...
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... never willed aught in vain . ( Ibid . , pp . 146-7 . ) Even while assuring Diodati that it was not physical beauty alone that enchanted him , he exalted the embodiment of the ' Idea ' as the object of his love in the terms of Petrarchan ...
... never willed aught in vain . ( Ibid . , pp . 146-7 . ) Even while assuring Diodati that it was not physical beauty alone that enchanted him , he exalted the embodiment of the ' Idea ' as the object of his love in the terms of Petrarchan ...
Page 157
... never be true marriage save where ' the fit union of their souls be such as may even incorporate them to love and amity ; but that can never be where no correspondence is of the mind ' ( 3. 477-8 ) . We need not labor the matter ...
... never be true marriage save where ' the fit union of their souls be such as may even incorporate them to love and amity ; but that can never be where no correspondence is of the mind ' ( 3. 477-8 ) . We need not labor the matter ...
Contents
MILTON AS A STUDENT OF PLATO | 3 |
ACADEMICS OLD AND NEW | 27 |
HIMSELF A TRUE POEM | 45 |
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