Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         more of them, and for a great many other reasons which
 2 Phaedr|   Anacreon and Sappho and other great writers, and is almost inclined
 3 Phaedr|          and may sometimes be a great deal better than sense.
 4 Phaedr|         freely behold them. The great vision of all is seen at
 5 Phaedr|  politicians are themselves the great rhetoricians of the age,
 6 Phaedr|        and others, rhetoric has great power in public assemblies.
 7 Phaedr|         future distinction as a great rhetorician he prophesies.
 8 Phaedr|       notion that the work of a great artist like Plato cannot
 9 Phaedr|        of this sort. Like every great artist he gives unity of
10 Phaedr|      awakened in them by really great works, such as the odes
11 Phaedr|         to be in keeping with a great work of art, and has no
12 Phaedr|        or withdraw you from the great world and stirring scenes
13 Phaedr|      such allegories there is a great deal which is merely ornamental,
14 Phaedr|         between the soul as the great motive power and the triple
15 Phaedr|        sense was found to be as great an enemy as the desires;
16 Phaedr|        Symposium, as one of the great powers of nature, which
17 Phaedr|      the other. Plato, with his great knowledge of human nature,
18 Phaedr|          which has exercised so great an influence on the literature
19 Phaedr|         the human mind that the great ideas of justice, temperance,
20 Phaedr|      the world. And would not a great painter, such as Michael
21 Phaedr|         as Michael Angelo, or a great poet, such as Shakespeare,
22 Phaedr|       me beauty,’ etc.; or ‘the great name which belongs to God
23 Phaedr|     Plato. The first of the two great rhetoricians is described
24 Phaedr|         and Symposium, there is great improbability in supposing
25 Phaedr|      philosopher, but also as a great writer. He cannot abide
26 Phaedr|       have seen, from afar, the great literary waste or dead level,
27 Phaedr|    after the death of the three great tragedians (Frogs). After
28 Phaedr|         been developed into the great European languages, never
29 Phaedr|  innumerable forged epistles, a great many epigrams, biographies
30 Phaedr|       any good prose. It had no great characters, and therefore
31 Phaedr|         and therefore it had no great writers. It was incapable
32 Phaedr|         and this neglect of the great authors of the past led
33 Phaedr|    Hence it becomes a matter of great interest to consider how,
34 Phaedr|        produce fruit. Here is a great reservoir or treasure-house
35 Phaedr|       earth. If at any time the great men of the world should
36 Phaedr|         produced. There is also great hope to be derived, not
37 Phaedr|      genius to be produced, the great writers of ancient or of
38 Phaedr|        I cannot; I would give a great deal if I could.~SOCRATES:
39 Phaedr|       philosophy will take up a great deal of time. Now I have
40 Phaedr|      but even when the cause is great, slowly laying up little
41 Phaedr|         was very fair and had a great many lovers; and there was
42 Phaedr|        he cannot fail to do him great harm. That is to say, in
43 Phaedr|        in war, or in any of the great crises of life, will be
44 Phaedr|     their senses have conferred great benefits on Hellas, both
45 Phaedr|       them of necessity gives a great deal of trouble to him.
46 Phaedr|      her condition, and is in a great strait and excitement, and
47 Phaedr|     because of their love.~Thus great are the heavenly blessings
48 Phaedr|         is nothing of which our great politicians are so fond
49 Phaedr|         to do with all matters, great as well as small, good and
50 Phaedr|     PHAEDRUS: I know that I had great pleasure in listening to
51 Phaedr|         SOCRATES: I am myself a great lover of these processes
52 Phaedr|      left?~PHAEDRUS: There is a great deal surely to be found
53 Phaedr|  probabilities are to come; the great Byzantian word-maker also
54 Phaedr| argument make the little appear great and the great little, disguise
55 Phaedr|     little appear great and the great little, disguise the new
56 Phaedr|      and when?~PHAEDRUS: A very great power in public meetings.~
57 Phaedr|        To me there seem to be a great many holes in their web.~
58 Phaedr|      and a short speech about a great matter, and also a sorrowful
59 Phaedr|         that?~SOCRATES: All the great arts require discussion
60 Phaedr|       will not attain without a great deal of trouble, which a
61 Phaedr|     this, for, where the end is great, there we may take the longer
62 Phaedr|      draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of
63 Phaedr|     Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which
64 Phaedr|      fancying that there is any great certainty and clearness
65 Phaedr|    spoken or written, is of any great value, if, like the compositions
66 Phaedr|        call them; for that is a great name which belongs to God