 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...tu 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 longing after immortality ; Or whence this secret dread and inward horror, Of falling into- naught? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 Seiten
...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, This longing after immortality ; Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | 1823 - 392 Seiten
...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, This longing after immortality ; Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...idol, at whose shrine Who 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 longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | 1824 - 348 Seiten
...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 desire ! This longing after immortality? Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 Seiten
...not disdain'd to hear. XV.— 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 longing after immortality ? Or, whence this secret dread and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1825 - 288 Seiten
...Arma en induvr [Ensi manum admoven>ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, $c. IT must be so Plato, thou reason's! 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... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 Seiten
...the heart, a desire in the soul, which nothing short of such an exalted fellowship can supply : — " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?" And hence the readiness, even of savage nature, to believe in incantations, and to deify the wonders... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 Seiten
...Soliloquy of Cato is the grand 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 longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 Seiten
...the Immortality of the Soul : — a drawn sword lying by him on the table. Cato. It must be so; — Plato, thou reasonest well ; — Else whence this...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... | |
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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. 
