 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 σελίδες
...LESSON II. CATO ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | 1839 - 544 σελίδες
...ife tjanifsofies sou. Scene.—A Chamber. Cato. It must be "so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 σελίδες
...Calo. It must be so ; — Plato, thou rcasonest well ; — Else whence this pli-aMiig hope, this fund desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of fjlling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction ? 'TU the divinity... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 σελίδες
...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for? " Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 σελίδες
...enveloped him, and which has been put in the mouth of every school-boy, in the language of Addison. "—— Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity... | |
 | 1877 - 506 σελίδες
...view of the origin of the conviction : — " It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | 1846 - 670 σελίδες
...given us this ambition to live is itself a sure and certain pledge of an endless state of being. " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction * 'Tis the divinity... | |
 | 1842 - 416 σελίδες
...soliloquy which he puts into the mouth of Cato : " It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tis... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 σελίδες
...elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 σελίδες
...CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 1. It must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing* hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the... | |
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Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. 
