Literary Criticism: A Short History. Classical and neo-classical criticism, Volume 1University of Chicago P., 1978 - 336 pages |
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... beauty , ® Ennead , I , vi , strongly inclined , like his master Plato , to de- preciate physical beauty , or at best to value it as an approach to the real beauty of intelligence in the Yonder . He that has the strength , let him arise ...
... beauty , ® Ennead , I , vi , strongly inclined , like his master Plato , to de- preciate physical beauty , or at best to value it as an approach to the real beauty of intelligence in the Yonder . He that has the strength , let him arise ...
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... beauty ? Think , says Plotinus , what that doctrine leads us to . Only a compound can be beautiful , never anything devoid of parts ; and only a whole ; the several parts will have beauty , not in themselves , but only as working ...
... beauty ? Think , says Plotinus , what that doctrine leads us to . Only a compound can be beautiful , never anything devoid of parts ; and only a whole ; the several parts will have beauty , not in themselves , but only as working ...
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... beauty , conferred by craftsmanship , of all a house with all its parts , and the beauty which some natural qual- ity may give to a single stone . The following appears in Ennead V , viii , 1 : Suppose two blocks of stone lying side by ...
... beauty , conferred by craftsmanship , of all a house with all its parts , and the beauty which some natural qual- ity may give to a single stone . The following appears in Ennead V , viii , 1 : Suppose two blocks of stone lying side by ...
Contents
Socrates and the Rhapsode PAGE | 3 |
The Internal Focus 555 | 16 |
Poetry as Structure | 21 |
Copyright | |
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