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Excerpt from Shelley's Relationship to Plato
Peacock's Rododaphne reminded him of a passage in the Phaedrus. In a review of it written early in 1818 for the Eggggggg but never pub lished, he wrote We are transported to the banks of Peneus, and linger under the crags of Tempe, and see the water-lilies floating on the stream. We are with Plato by old Ilissus, under the sacred Plane-tree among the sweet scent of flowering sallows; and above there is h the nightingale of Sophocles in the ivy of the pine who is watch ing the sunset so that it may sing. (dowden, Edward: The life of percy Bysshe shelleyj Kegan Paul Trench 00 London. 1886; vol.ii, p. 818) Godwin and Peacock ought to have been flattered by this resembling of their works to Plato's. It was the highest compliment he could give the wisest, the profoundest, among the ancients. In the fragment of a Preface pp phg ngp t 92 he spoke of Plato as eminently the greatest among the Greek philosophers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
