 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...in his Hand, Plato's Boot on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Tabte, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato thou reason'st well — Else...this secret dread and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...SOLILOQUY ON IMMORTALITY. — Addison. Born, 1672; died, 1719. IT must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into caught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the divinity that... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pages
...for ever!" 8. Are we surely immortal ? Call Addison to reply : It must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction I 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...still, by faction, vice, and fortune, crost, Shall find the gen'rous labour was not lost. ACT V. SCENE I CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture: in his...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 pages
...hereafter The tale of this unhappy embassy, All Rome will be in tears. — ADDISON. CATO ON IMMORTALITY. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well— Else...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...BEFORE HIS SUICIDE. [See Johnson's ' Addison,' pp. 154, 155.] It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 604 pages
...give it to the winds. Oesar, I'm wholly thine. II.— ACT \.-Sccne i. CATO, PORCIUS. Cato discovered, in a thoughtful posture. In his hand Plato's book...Immortality of the Soul : a drawn sword on the table by him. Cato. It must be so ; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 350 pages
...alone should please a British ear, As CATO'S self had not disdained to hear. THE SOLILOQUY OF CATO. CATO, solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture. In his...book on The Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on a table by him. IT must be so! PLATO, thou reason'st well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond... | |
 | James O'Shea - 1902 - 220 pages
...To sleep ! perchance to dream ;— aye, there's the rub !' ' It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! — Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tis the Divinity... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.1 ibid. It must be so, — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nanght ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destrnction ? 'T is the divinity that... | |
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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 at destruction... 
