 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 Seiten
...in his hand, Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul ; a drawn smord on the table beside him.] It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well; Else...secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 7 "Pis the divinity that stirs... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 Seiten
...Plato's Book on (lie Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at deslruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...Cato's* Soliloquy' on the Immortality of the Soul. — TRAGEDY OF CATO. 1. It must be so — Plato, f thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope,...points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. 2. Eternity ! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 Seiten
...hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! —...stirs within us : Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - 368 Seiten
...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...points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through... | |
 | 1839 - 544 Seiten
...pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us? Whence arises the... | |
 | 1877 - 506 Seiten
...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...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man, Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new... | |
 | 1846 - 670 Seiten
...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." — Addison's Cato. Without pretending to have given more than a brief synopsis of the argument from... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 Seiten
...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." CATO, Actv. And while this desire lingers in the human soul, as it always will, man cannot forget that... | |
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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... 
