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Oh most delightful scene !—and must it fade ? Sink as it rose , an unsubstantial shade ? For ever gone ! It will not thus depart , — The vivid impress will not leave ray heart . Ye visions of my sleeping , waking hours , That haunt my thoughts in lovely woodland bowers , And fill my heart with sadness as you rise , — Wake strong desires , and unavailing sighs ;—Oh ! that some future happy year might see Your shadowy picture ' s bright reality :
Oh ! that the man were born , whose soul refined , — A blessing to the coming age designed , — Will deem his wealth a privilege from Heav ' n For deed 8 of love—for noblest objects given : Will grant the city ' s busy sons the power In pure delights to spend one harmless hour ; And aid its youth in nature ' s ample fields To rind a higher bliss than folly yields . J . L .
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Plato ' s Dialogues ; the Phadrus . 633
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No . II . The Ph ^ drus . ( Continued from p . 420 . J We left Socrates and Phsedrus on the point of commencing a new inquiry , viz ., ' What constitutes Good Speaking and Writing . '
'Is it not necessary / asked Socrates , in order to speak well , that the speaker should in his own mind know the truth , in respect to the subject concerning which he is to speak' ?** 1 have heard it said / answered Phaedrus , * that an orator need not bow what is really just , but only what will appear so to the multitude kho are to decide ; and that he need not know what is really good , or
beautiful , but what will appear so : for persuasion is produced by means > f the apparent , not the true . 4 We must not / said Socrates , * reject without examination what wise Ben affirm ; we must inquire whether there is anything in it . * Suppose that I wanted to persuade you to buy a horse in order to 50 forth and meet the enemy ; and that we were both of us entirely gnorant of a horse , but I happened to know of you , that you believed 4
1 horse to be the most long-eared of all domestic animals . * It would be idiculous , ' answered Ph » drus . * Not yet , * replied Socrates ; * but what f I were seriously to set about persuading you , by composing a speech > a the ass , calling it a horse , and celebrating it as the finest of animals or domestic use , for military service , for carrying goods , and a hundred * her things ? ' ' It would be highly ridiculous / 4 Is it not better to be idiculous , than a dangerous and pernicious friend V ' Certainly / ' But
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NOTES ON SOME OF THE MORE POPULAR DIALOGUES OF PLATO .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1834, page 633, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2637/page/29/
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