The Phaedrus, Lysis, and Protagoras of PlatoMacmillan, 1900 - 272 pages |
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able Alcibiades allow answer appear arguments assert beautiful become believe better Callias certainly conceive consider contrary conversation courage course Critias Ctesippus daring desire discourse evil F. T. PALGRAVE fancy father favour favourite fear follow former friendly friendship give gods hand hear heard Hephæstus Hippias Hippocrates Hippothales holiness honourable horses ignorance imagine inspired instruction justice kind knowledge learned lover Lysias Lysis madness matter mean Menexenus mind nature never object opinion pain palæstra Phædrus physician Pittacus pleasure poem poet political virtue Polyclitus possess possible praise pray present proceed Prodicus Prodicus of Ceos Protagoras question reason replied resemblance rhetoric sake Simonides Socrates sophist sort soul speak speaker speech Stesichorus sure talk taught tell Theuth thing tion Tisias true truth virtue wisdom wise wish words writing Xanthippus youth Zeus
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Page 82 - I think you will allow, that every speech ought to be put together like a living creature, with a body of its own, so as to be neither without head nor without feet, but to have both a middle and extremities described proportionately to each other and to the whole.
Page 62 - ... white-coloured, blackeyed ; he loves honour with temperance and modesty, and, a votary of genuine glory, he is driven without stroke of the whip by voice and reason alone. The bad horse, on the other hand, is crooked, bulky, clumsily put together, with thick neck, short throat, flat face, black coat, grey and bloodshot eyes, a friend to all riot and insolence, shaggy about the ears, dull of hearing, scarce yielding to lash and goad united. Whenever therefore the driver sees the sight which inspires...
Page 108 - ... competent to defend themselves, and him who planted them, and are not unfruitful, but bear seed in their turn, from which other words springing up in other minds are capable of preserving this precious seed ever undecaying, and making their possessor ever happy, so far as happiness is possible for man.
Page 44 - Muses, which seizes upon a tender and a virgin soul, and, stimng it up to rapturous frenzy, adorns in ode and other verse the countless deeds of elder time for the instruction of after ages. But whosoever without the madness of the Muses comes to knock at the doors of poesy, from the conceit that haply by force of art he will become an efficient poet, departs with blasted hopes, and his poetry, the poetry of sense, fades into obscurity before the poetry of madness.
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Page 56 - But whenever one who is fresh from those mysteries, who saw much of that heavenly vision, beholds in any god-like face or form a successful copy of original beauty, he first of all feels a shuddering chill, and there creep over him some of those terrors that assailed him in that dire struggle; then, as he continues to gaze, he is inspired with a reverential awe, and did he not fear the repute of exceeding madness, he would offer sacrifice to his beloved as to the image of a god.