 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...both. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 1. It must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing* hope, this fond...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us 'T is heaven itself that points out an hereafter : And intimates... | |
 | 1844 - 592 pages
...in the past, or yet to come. And yet the very idea of annihilation strikes the soul with horror. " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of Tailing into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herielf, and startles at destruction? Tii the divinity... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...the Soul in his Jmnd; and a drawn sword on the table by him, IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire....Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis tlje Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT m'ust be so' — Pl'ato, thou reasonest we'll — E'lse/ whence this pl'easing ho'pe, this...h'orror, Of falling into noug'ht ? Why shrinks the soul * Nouns ending in iiy, and adjectives in ible, should be pronounced at if terminating in ety and eble,... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 pages
...the scale. EXAMPLES OF " VERY LOW " PITCH. Deep Solemnity, Sublimity, and Awe. Cato, [in soliloquy.] Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the Divinity that stirs... | |
 | 1845 - 584 pages
...this fond desire, This longing after immortaliiy : Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, At falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? " and will not enlightened reason reply — " "Tis the divinity that stirs within us, Tis heaven... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 374 pages
...orotund": "Subdued and Suppressed " force ; " Median stress.") " It must be so : — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality 1 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Royal Robbins - 1845 - 342 pages
...Immortality of the Soul ; a drawn smord on the table beside him.} It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality 1 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 pages
...not for him45 self.8 Norton. II. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. It must be so' — Plato, thou reasonest well !5 Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ?2 Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 5 Of falling into nought ?6 Why shrinks the•... | |
 | Joshua Bates - 1846 - 484 pages
...argument of ancient philosophy has been beautifully expressed in modern poetry : Plato, thou reasonest well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...and startles at destruction. 'Tis the Divinity that stire within us ; • 'Tis Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.... | |
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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. 
