 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...impitrrtality ? Lesson 206.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. 469 Or, whence this secret dread and inward horrour, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us : 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...sedebis extra fragmina.' ACT. V. SCENE I. CATO alone, Sfc. ' It must be so Plato thou reason's! well Else 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? "I'is the Divinity that... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...shall know. MILTON. CHAP. VI. CATOS SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward honour Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the Soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?... | |
 | Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...It must be ! Else whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought i Why sluinks 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." Corresponding to this... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 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...— 'Tis the divinity, that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out — an hereafter, And intimates — eternity to man. Eternity ! thou... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...oft'nest sacrifice are favor'd least. Ibid. IMMORTALITY. It must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'u itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Mdison's Cato. The soul... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 458 pages
...the Soul. A dratcn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the aivinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Ueav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity... | |
 | English drama - 1824 - 660 pages
...Soul : a drau-n sword on thf table by him. Cato. It must be so; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else when this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on nerself and startles at destruction ? "I'is the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tjs the divinity that stirs within us : 'Tiatjieav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...quotation.— It were a sort of derogation to omit it. 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 an hereafter, • And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
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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... 
