 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 930 pages
...Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must he so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? NVhy shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 926 pages
...Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, bjr him. Calo. It must be so — Plato ihou reason'st •wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret tlread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Hack on herself, and startles... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 pages
...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...Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...the Immortality of the Soul.— TRAGEDY OF CATO. 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 failing into nought ? Why shrmks the soul • Buck on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 pages
...of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity... | |
 | British theatre - 1830 - 928 pages
...bjr him. Cato. It musí be so — Plato tbou reason's! well — Els« whence ibis pleasing hope, ibis 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 ? Tïs the divinity... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tis... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...her bleak mountains smile. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, tliou reason's! well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity... | |
 | 1833 - 332 pages
...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 —...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the Soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity... | |
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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. 
