Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|        Although only a playful composition, it will be found to embody
 2 Phaedr|        to any kind of literary composition, and to some species of
 3 Phaedr|        appear to be a style of composition in which the requirement
 4 Phaedr|        dialectic or the art of composition and division; fourthly,
 5 Phaedr|    mind and truth with Art the composition of colours and forms; and
 6 Phaedr|        them. The true rules of composition, which are very few, are
 7 Phaedr|    pleasure and grace in their composition. You may say that a courtesan
 8 Phaedr|   moved by her power; and this composition of soul and body is called
 9 Phaedr|       often a long and tedious composition. Now what is that sort of
10 Phaedr|       the several parts of the composition?~PHAEDRUS: You have too
11 Phaedr| insight into his principles of composition.~SOCRATES: At any rate,
12 Phaedr|         I mean to say that the composition was mostly playful. Yet
13 Phaedr|     effectively, or making the composition a whole,—an application