, 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

[No. 86]

), 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.'

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