 IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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...  HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Sida 382efter KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 sidor
...Cato. It must be no — Plato tlinu reason's! well — J!ls<! whence this pleasing hope, this fund desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence...destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 sidor
...diidain'd to hear. r XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul. — TRABEDY OF CATO. FT must be so — Plato thou reasonest well ! Else, Whence...points out an Hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 sidor
...— Plato, thou reasonest well ! — Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This'longing after immortality ? Or, whence this secret dread and...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us* 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! — Thou pleasing,... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 sidor
...prospect of death, — an incident which forms the groundwork of Addison's celebrated soliloquy : — • It must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within ua ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." The soul he regarded... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 sidor
...lllresa tu sedebis extra fragmina. ACT Y. SCENE I. CATO ALONE, &C. It must be so Plato, thou reas'nest we Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | 1823 - 392 sidor
...sedebis extra fragmina. 662 ACT V. SCENE I. CATO ALONE, &C. It must be so Plato, thou reas'nest we Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 sidor
...ear, As Cato's self had not disdain'd to^hear. XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the So IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! —...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us : 'Tis heav'n itself th"at points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! — Thou pleasing,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sidor
...impitrrtality ? Lesson 206.] FIRST CLASS BOOK. 469 Or, whence this secret dread and inward horrour, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | 1822 - 500 sidor
...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...out an hereafter ; And intimates Eternity to man." Corresponding to this dread of annihilation, is the desire after immortality. But here the objection... | |
 | 1824 - 348 sidor
...immortality of 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...— an hereafter, And intimates — eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing — dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd beings, Through what... | |
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