 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 pages
...; in his hand Plato's bqok on the Immortality of the Soul ; a drawn sword on the table beside him.] It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...Provoked Husband. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.From the Tragedy of Cato, by Addlson. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — Tis the Divinity that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...longing after immortality Í Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful, thought ! Through what variety of untried being, [pass ? Through... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! —...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the Soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — Tis the Divinity that... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...Cato's* Soliloquy' on the Immortality of the Soul. — TRAGEDY OF CATO. 1. It must be so — Plato, f thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back- on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...Shakspeare. 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...this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that... | |
 | 1839 - 544 pages
...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...fond desire', This longing after immortality'? Or', whence this secret dread' and inward horrour', Of falling into naught'? Why shrinks the soul Back...destruction'? *Tis the divinity that stirs within us', 'Tis heav'n itself that points out a hereafter', And intimates eternity to man'. Eternity'! — Thou pleasing',... | |
 | 1846 - 670 pages
...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,...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." — Addison's Cato. Without pretending to have given more than a brief synopsis of the argument from... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 pages
...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...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." CATO, Actv. And while this desire lingers in the human soul, as it always will, man cannot forget that... | |
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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, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles... 
