 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 pages
...dejection and disquietude. We might safely assert that such natural reasonings, and meditations as — " 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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 1062 pages
...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 ?... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 pages
...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...Or whence 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... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 pages
...of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. 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 naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at deslruction ? 'Tis the... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 the... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...Immortality of the Soul. — TRAGEDY OF CATO. 1. It must be so — Plato, f 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 the... | |
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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. 
