Platonic love

platonic love English Noun ~ en platonic love. en 12 April 1773 The Force of Honour The Western Flying Post; or Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury and General Advertiser XXV 2190 Sherborne, Dorset Printed by Robert Goadby,at the Printing-Office in Long-Street, Sherborne. appendix (volume II) 58 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/979340450/ 1 57743856 The practice of Platonic love, of which he had formed ſo fine an idea in ſpeculation, appeared to him but a chimera in reality. en 18 February 1775 To the Printers of the Cambridge Chronicle The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal XIII 643 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Printed by T. Fletcher and F. Hodson,at their Offices on the Market-Hill, and near the Senate-House: […] [2] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/975588938/ 4 1000914825 Ye ſanctified and holy, / Who methodiſtically prove / The force of true-⁠-⁠-Platonic love, / Indulge for once with Scholey. en 26 March 1789 Poet’s Corner. The Difference between Love and Friendship. The State Gazette of North-Carolina IV 168 Edenton, N.C. Printed by Hodge & Wills,Printers to the State, […] [4] https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55580440/ 1 40367918 One heart, but in two bodies join’d, / By ancient writers is defin’d, / A friend in truth to prove; / To me ſhe’s preſent when away, / My tender thoughts with Delia ſtay; / Is this Platonic love? en 1970 September Joseph Epstein Homo/Hetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity Harper’s Magazine New York, N.Y. 0017-789X 969983468 Homosexual appetites, tastes, and fantasies, one is reminded while listening to Elliot, appear to be every bit as various as heterosexual ones, with the range of homosex—running from an almost Platonic love to sadistic lust—being no less wide than that of heterosex. en 1975 1962 Nazim Hikmet Randy Blasing; Mutlu Konuk Things I Didn’t Know I Loved Things I Didn’t Know I Loved: Selected Poems of Nazim Hikmet New York, N.Y. Persea Books 80 https://archive.org/details/thingsididntknow0000nazm/page/80/mode/1up 0-89255-000-7 I didn’t know I loved the earth / can someone who hasn’t worked the earth love it / I’ve never worked the earth / it must be my only Platonic love en 1998 spring José María Rodríguez García la Epos delendum est: The Subject of Carthage in Garcilaso’s ‘es A Boscán desde “La Goleta”’ https://www.jstor.org/stable/474525 w:Hispanic Review 66 2 Philadelphia, Pa. w:University of Pennsylvania Press 166 10.2307/474525 0018-2176 5552883525 Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes. Yet to take them at face value, as an innocent reading of the poem might advise, would be to betray Garcilaso’s own efforts, in this sonnet and elsewhere, to expose the arbitrariness of grandiose idealist concepts such as Platonic love and providential history. en 1999 winter Anna Makkonen ‘My Own Novel, Yes, Really!’: The Early Diary of Aino Kallas and Reading for the Plot https://www.jstor.org/stable/40920170 Scandinavian Studies 71 4 Madison, Wis. w:Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 448 0036-5637 936842197 Aino’s Platonic love for Luiga lasted at least ten years. en 2006 fall Joe Ashby Porter Solstice https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0045.415;g=mqrg;keywords=rgn...;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1 w:Michigan Quarterly Review XLV 4 Ann Arbor, Mich. w:University of Michigan 655–674 0026-2420 820615396 [H]e reads in Plato’s Charmides how Socrates steals a glance inside the toga of a beautiful young man and burns. Gooding scarcely comprehends how it can be so offhand. Is this the Platonic love he has heard of? Shouldn’t it rather be called Socratic? https://web.archive.org/web/20261022084059/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0045.415;g=mqrg;keywords=rgn...;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1 22 October 2026 en 2011 w:Joseph Lelyveld Upper House w:Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India New York, N.Y. w:Alfred A. Knopf part I (South Africa) 88 https://archive.org/details/greatsoulmahatma0000lely/page/88/mode/1up 978-0-307-26958-4 In an age when the concept of Platonic love gains little credence, selectively chosen details of the relationship and quotations from letters can easily be arranged to suggest a conclusion.