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... Platonic , for with Plato himself the virtues are continually sliding into one another , and , when any particular ... Platonic love of wisdom considered more especially in relation to that purity and dedicated- ness which wisdom demands ...
... Platonic , for with Plato himself the virtues are continually sliding into one another , and , when any particular ... Platonic love of wisdom considered more especially in relation to that purity and dedicated- ness which wisdom demands ...
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... Platonic passage in mind , one in the tenth Book of the Republic ( 611c - d ) , where Socrates declares that the soul on earth is so fettered and con- taminated by the body and the senses that its original form is no more recognisable ...
... Platonic passage in mind , one in the tenth Book of the Republic ( 611c - d ) , where Socrates declares that the soul on earth is so fettered and con- taminated by the body and the senses that its original form is no more recognisable ...
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... Platonic and absolute contrast between ' these pure Ambrosial weeds ' and ' the rank vapours of this Sin - worn mould ' : that absolute contrast , which we so often find in Plato , and above all in the Phaedo , between the impure ...
... Platonic and absolute contrast between ' these pure Ambrosial weeds ' and ' the rank vapours of this Sin - worn mould ' : that absolute contrast , which we so often find in Plato , and above all in the Phaedo , between the impure ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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