 | Raphael - 1841 - 782 pages
...reason's! well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality I Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of...destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis hcavon itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. The soul, secured in her... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...expressed this view of the origin of the conviction : — " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 416 pages
...given by Addison. The following is the well-known soliloquy which he puts into the mouth of Cato : " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 380 pages
...prepared at any moment for death ? Try the question ! We have been grateful, but not penitent ! 41 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Sickness attacks our ease commences its ra em, and fierce disin the midst nl our most blissful enjoyments,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...gesture with the right arm, than to extend both. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 1. 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 ? 'T is the divinity that... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " 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... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason's! wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...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 Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...longing after immortality ? 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, Through what... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...any further J a temp'tation/ to digre'ss. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT m'ust be so' — Pl'ato, thou reasonest we'll —...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 pronounced... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...imth Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his Jmnd; and a drawn sword on the table by 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 tlje Divinity 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... 
