Platonism in English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

by John Smith Harrison

As if some miracle of heavenly hew

Were downe to them descended in that earthly vew.”

(VI. ix. 8.)

They saw in the object before their eyes the idea of beauty in earthly form. The miracle is no more and no less than this; it is “the privilege of beauty, that being the loveliest she is also the most palpable to sight.”

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