A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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Page 28
... Plato in Athens , by the Antonines in Rome , by the Alfreds , the l'Hospitals , the Miltons , Newtons , and Shakespeares . In like manner , we are anxious to dis- cover how these great men and poets appeared in com- mon , what habits ...
... Plato in Athens , by the Antonines in Rome , by the Alfreds , the l'Hospitals , the Miltons , Newtons , and Shakespeares . In like manner , we are anxious to dis- cover how these great men and poets appeared in com- mon , what habits ...
Page 48
... Plato , on a similar account , was for banishing Homer from his republic . Plutarch will not allow that it was the real Apollo who fought a serpent and afterwards had to purify himself . He said it must have been a likeness of him , a ...
... Plato , on a similar account , was for banishing Homer from his republic . Plutarch will not allow that it was the real Apollo who fought a serpent and afterwards had to purify himself . He said it must have been a likeness of him , a ...
Page 49
... Plato , for instance , observing the moral imperfections of our planet , and not knowing how to account for them any more than we do ( for the first cause of evil is always left in the dark ) , imag- ined that this world was created by ...
... Plato , for instance , observing the moral imperfections of our planet , and not knowing how to account for them any more than we do ( for the first cause of evil is always left in the dark ) , imag- ined that this world was created by ...
Page 50
... Plato's assumption of the innate and unconscious diffi- culty which matter presents in the working ( or an inability of some sort , whatever it be , to render things perfect at once ) , is surely the best assumption among the hundreds ...
... Plato's assumption of the innate and unconscious diffi- culty which matter presents in the working ( or an inability of some sort , whatever it be , to render things perfect at once ) , is surely the best assumption among the hundreds ...
Page 57
... Plato upon Agathon , who having been , he says , a morning star among the living , was now an evening * In his tragedy of Irene . Gibbon has noticed it somewhere in the Decline and Fall . 3 star in the shades . Here , also , was HEATHEN ...
... Plato upon Agathon , who having been , he says , a morning star among the living , was now an evening * In his tragedy of Irene . Gibbon has noticed it somewhere in the Decline and Fall . 3 star in the shades . Here , also , was HEATHEN ...
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