 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...— 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us-: 'Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...her bleak mountains smile. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, tliou reason's! well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! lliou pleasing,... | |
 | R. T. Trall - 1996 - 116 pages
...so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This 16nging after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ( Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Pis the divinity that... | |
 | Styan - 1965 - 168 pages
...the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him.' It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none of the hesitations... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 pages
...drawn sword on the table by him. • Cato. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at desnuetion? Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pages
...time ' and very ' long pauses.' 2. " It must || be so. || Plato, || thou reasonest well ! || Else | whence | this pleasing hope, || this fond desire,...after immortality? |||| Or whence | this secret dread | | | arid inward horror | | | Of falling into nought? |||| Why | shrinks the soul | Back | on herself,... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 pages
...their bright faces again. "It must be so: Plato thon reasoneth well: Else whence this pleasiugjiope, this fond desire This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of sinking into naught? Why shriuks the soul back on itself. Aud startles at destruction?... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pages
...afterlife by Plato's discussion of the immortality of the soul, asks the following and then takes his life. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural desire... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 pages
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand. He soliloquizes: It must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.52 In this speech the two crucial words "intimates" and "immortality" appear to be six lines apart,... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 pages
...must be true." CHAPTER VII "Thou Great First Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the 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 nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles... 
