Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|   Phaedrus is captivated with the beauty of the periods, and wants
 2 Phaedr|         the enjoyment of personal beauty. And this is the master
 3 Phaedr|       upper world—there to behold beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the
 4 Phaedr|       when he beholds the visible beauty of earth his enraptured
 5 Phaedr|    keenest of our senses, because beauty, alone of the ideas, has
 6 Phaedr|         excited by this vision of beauty, rushes on to enjoy, and
 7 Phaedr|        love or the inspiration of beauty and knowledge, which is
 8 Phaedr|         that, even as to personal beauty, her place was taken by
 9 Phaedr|          into a scene of heavenly beauty; a divine idea would accompany
10 Phaedr|          she beholds the flashing beauty of the beloved. But before
11 Phaedr|         Once more, in speaking of beauty is he really thinking of
12 Phaedr|        not rather of an imaginary beauty, of a sort which extinguishes
13 Phaedr|           vulgar love,—a heavenly beauty like that which flashed
14 Phaedr|           in some form of visible beauty, like the absolute purity
15 Phaedr|         of the Dialogue, ‘Give me beauty in the inward soul, and
16 Phaedr|         just been cited, ‘Give me beauty,’ etc.; or ‘the great name
17 Phaedr| literature. There was no sense of beauty either in language or in
18 Phaedr|          away to the enjoyment of beauty, and especially of personal
19 Phaedr|        and especially of personal beauty, by the desires which are
20 Phaedr|           the gods. The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and the
21 Phaedr|         him who, when he sees the beauty of earth, is transported
22 Phaedr|          recollection of the true beauty; he would like to fly away,
23 Phaedr|           the happy band they saw beauty shining in brightness,—we
24 Phaedr|          have passed away.~But of beauty, I repeat again that we
25 Phaedr|          this is the privilege of beauty, that being the loveliest
26 Phaedr|        world to the sight of true beauty in the other; he looks only
27 Phaedr|          the expression of divine beauty; and at first a shudder
28 Phaedr|         receives the effluence of beauty through the eyes, the wing
29 Phaedr|      beginning to grow wings, the beauty of the beloved meets her
30 Phaedr|        and at the recollection of beauty is again delighted. And
31 Phaedr|          herself in the waters of beauty, her constraint is loosened,
32 Phaedr|        his love from the ranks of beauty according to his character,
33 Phaedr|           and behold the flashing beauty of the beloved; which when
34 Phaedr|     memory is carried to the true beauty, whom he beholds in company
35 Phaedr|       came, so does the stream of beauty, passing through the eyes
36 Phaedr|           eight days appearing in beauty? at least he would do so,
37 Phaedr|         haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and