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But what if man had eyes to see the true beauty the divine beauty, I mean, pure and clear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions of mortality, and all the colours and vanities of human life thither looking, and holding converse with the true beauty divine and simple? Would that be an ignoble life?" Closely connected in subject with the Symposium is the Phaedrus.

Lastly, we may remark that the banquet is a real banquet after all, at which love is the theme of discourse, and huge quantities of wine are drunk. The discourse of Phaedrus is half-mythical, half-ethical; and he himself, true to the character which is given him in the Dialogue bearing his name, is half-sophist, half-enthusiast.

It will therefore, as I imagine, be not improper, in pursuance of the admonition given us by Plato himself in his dialogue named Phaedrus and in imitation of the example set us by the ancient Platonists to distinguish the several kinds; by dividing them, first, into the most general; and then, subdividing into the subordinate; till we come to those lower species, that particularly and precisely denote the nature of the several dialogues, and from which they ought to take their respective denominations.

The body of fables current in the Middle Ages is considered by the most recent investigators to descend from the collection of Phaedrus, though probably supplemented from the Greek collection independently formed by Babrius about the same period.

Say then, Phaedrus, whether you would like to have the truth about love, spoken in any words and in any order which may happen to come into my mind at the time. Will that be agreeable to you? Aristodemus said that Phaedrus and the company bid him speak in any manner which he thought best.

For the Timaeus, for instance, will teach us the theory of the intelligible genera, and the Phaedrus appears to present us with a regular account of the first intellectual orders. But where will be the coordination of intellectuals to intelligibles? And what will be the generation of second from first natures?

On execute mal ce qu'on n'a pas concu soi-meme* words spoken on so high an occasion are true in their measure of every genuine enthusiasm. Enthusiasm that, in the broad Platonic sense of the Phaedrus, was the secret of his divinatory power over the Hellenic world.

"Well, I acknowledge my mistake," said Edmund, drawing up his rein as they came upon the pair, a pleasing lady, and a pretty blue-eyed girl of fourteen. "I did not believe my eyes, Mrs. Wortley, though Marian tried to persuade me. I thought you were always reading Italian at this time in the morning, Agnes". "And I thought you were reading Phaedrus with Gerald," said Mrs. Wortley.

In dealing with his poetry other resemblances will suggest themselves. All the best poetry the world has known is full of such resemblances. If we find Emerson's wonderful picture, "Initial Love" prefigured in the "Symposium" of Plato, we have only to look in the "Phaedrus" and we we shall find an earlier sketch of Shakespeare's famous group, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet."

Caxton, a book which is in Latin what Goody Two-Shoes is in the vernacular!" "Fie! Austin I I am sure you can construe Phaedrus, dear!" Pisistratus prudently preserves silence. MR. CAXTON. "I'll try him "'Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio Colurque proprius. "What does that mean?" "His own novel," interrupted my father. "Contentus peragis!"

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