 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1839 - 544 páginas
...Portius— IToufcnoto, WU tatjer ife tjanifsofies sou. Scene.—A Chamber. Cato. It must be "so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope,...desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and... | |
 | 1839 - 320 páginas
...passage — " Hull, wedded love 1 mysterious law," &c. She then soliloquises.] It must be so ! Milton thou reasonest well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire ? This longing after matrimony ? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of dying unespoused ? why shrinks the heart... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 páginas
...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for? " Whence springs 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 páginas
...with Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand ; and a drawn sword on the table by him. It must' be so — | Plato, thou reasonest well !...pleasing hope', | this fond desire', | This longing after immortaHty 1 \ Or whence this secret dread, \ and inward horror, | Of falling into nought ? | why shrinks... | |
 | 1877 - 506 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1846 - 670 páginas
...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, 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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 páginas
...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 longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and... | |
 | Raphael - 1841 - 782 páginas
...admired lines* which he puts into the mouth of Cato . — " It must be so — Plato, thou 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 falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | 1842 - 416 páginas
...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...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... | |
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Why shrinks 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. 
