 | 1832 - 438 страници
...thou reasonest well— Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality P Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "I'is the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 страници
...Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire! CATOS SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us: 'Tis... | |
 | 1833 - 332 страници
...sleep. CATO REASONING ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope — this fond desire —...inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the Soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; "Pis Heaven... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 страници
...dejection and disquietude. We might safely assert that such natural reasonings, and meditations as — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis heav'n... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 страници
...the Immortality of the Soul. — ADDISON. IT must be so' — Plato', thou reasonest well' — Else', whence this pleasing hope', this fond desire', This...immortality'? Or', whence this secret dread' and inward horrour', Of falling into nought'? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction'?... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 306 страници
...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...horror Of falling into nought? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 1062 страници
...a beautiful paraphrase of tinsense of the apostle, whether he had his words in view or not : — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horrar Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 страници
...THE SOUL.From the Tragedy of Cato, by Addlson. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; Tis... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 294 страници
...Soul ; a drawn sword on the table beside him.] It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis heaven... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 страници
...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...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... | |
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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... 
