 | Dale Maurice Riepe - Philosophy - 1979 - 418 pages
...I recall the lines of William Butler Yeats which go : 98 Philosophy, Logic and Language, p. 246. 23 Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things, Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings." On the one hand Kalidas maintains... | |
 | Harry W. Paul - Science - 1985 - 432 pages
...History. I. Title. Q127.F8P36 1985 509' .44 84-27508 ISBN 0521265045 hardback ISBN 0521 52524 1 paperback Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras... | |
 | Joseph Margolis - Art - 1987 - 624 pages
...this fate than any others. In the sixth stanza of Yeats's Among School Children there occur the lines: Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings. Many editions give the first... | |
 | Richard Ellmann - Fiction - 1989 - 534 pages
...thought they would. In the sixth stanza Yeats treats them all, including Plato himself, with derision. Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras... | |
 | Brian Arkins - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...VII.77 The nature of Platonic dualism is brilliantly summed up in the first two lines of stanza VI: Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things . . . The kosmos is only a model or copy of what is real, 'things' that exist in the Intelligible world,... | |
 | Stan Smith - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 196 pages
...thus, like the aged Yeats, little more than scarecrows, intended to scare off the thought of death: Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras... | |
 | Peter De Vos - Nature - 1991 - 412 pages
...us look first at the history of our ideas about "nature." CHAPTER 5 The Contribution of the Greeks Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things . . . — William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children" /"T"1HE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL WAS FIRST PROCLAIMED... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...on its head, A compensation for the pang of his birth, Or the uncertainty of his setting forth? 40 Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden -thighed... | |
 | Alexander Norman Jeffares - Ireland - 1997 - 504 pages
...equivalent of certain seventeenth-century qualities . His use of the idiom and rhythm of speech is not all : Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras... | |
 | Herman L. Sinaiko - Philosophy - 1998 - 358 pages
...winters on its head, A compensation for the pang of his birth, Or the uncertainty of his settingforth? VI Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras... | |
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Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things; Solider Aristotle played the taws Upon the bottom of a king of kings; World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings What a star sang and careless... 
