 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 σελίδες
...lan hand; and a drawn sword on the table by him. 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 the... | |
 | 1845 - 492 σελίδες
...do no more ? Is this the whole of being? Is there no hereafter? Then is man most miserable. But— "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... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 σελίδες
...ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT m'ust be so' — Pl'ato, thou reasonest we'll — E'lse/ whence this pl'easing ho'pe, this fo'nd desir'e, This...whence this secret dre'ad, and inward h'orror, Of falling into noug'ht ? Why shrinks the soul * Nouns ending in iiy, and adjectives in ible, should be... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 σελίδες
...elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason's! 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 σελίδες
...scale. EXAMPLES OF " VERY LOW " PITCH. Deep Solemnity, Sublimity, and Awe. Cato, [in soliloquy.] Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the... | |
 | 1845 - 904 σελίδες
...whole of being? Is there no hereafter? Then is man most miserable. But— " Whence this pleasing hone, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? 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 - 668 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 t Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 σελίδες
...ON THE IMMORTALITY OP THE SOUL. — Addison. 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 ? 'Tis the divinity... | |
 | Joshua Bates - 1846 - 484 σελίδες
...ancient philosophy has been beautifully expressed in modern poetry : 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 the Divinity... | |
 | My youthful companions - 1846 - 170 σελίδες
...soliloquy, is applicable to the mass of Pagan sages : — * It must be so. Plato, thou reasonest well I 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 divinity... | |
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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. 
