 | John Bell - 1791 - Страниц: 292
...IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — £lse whence this pleasing hope, this fo.id desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought I Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - Страниц: 462
...CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : in his hand Plato's booh on the Immortality of the Soul. This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | 1797 - Страниц: 462
...this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought I Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | 1800 - Страниц: 322
...pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks...destruction? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - Страниц: 304
...Or whence this seciet dread, and inward horror, Of falling into noight? Why shrinks the soul B ick 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. Eternity '. thou pleasing,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Страниц: 320
...be sr Plato, thou rcason'st well . Else whence tliis pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longii g after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nor-ght; Why shrinks the soul B ick on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 342
...alone, &c. IT must be so Plato, thou reasonest well Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful, thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | 1803 - Страниц: 222
...it excludes pomp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cato's Soliloquy are at once easy and sublime. 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heav'n...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there's a pow'r above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - Страниц: 418
...Soliloquy. JUT must be so — Plato thou reason'st wellElse whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...out an hereafter , And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Thro1 what variety of untry'd being , Thro' what new scenes... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - Страниц: 946
...him. IT must be so — Plato, thon reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
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It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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... 
