, and in another of the
Gorgias
. In § 131 of the
Phædon
is the passage here especially referred to; which was the basis also of lines 461-475 of Milton's
Comus
. The last of our own Platonists was Henry More, one of whose books Addison quoted four essays back (in
), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with 'the foul steam of earthly life.'