 | William Bailey (A.B.) - Страниц: 534
...dejection and disquietude. We might safely assert that such natural reasonings, and meditations as — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...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 Kirkham - 1834 - Страниц: 360
...Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul. — ADDISON. IT must be so' — Plato', thou reasonest well' — Else', whence this pleasing hope', 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 - Страниц: 306
...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...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence proceeds the... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - Страниц: 204
...(lie Immortality 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...shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at deslruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven iiself that points out an hereafter,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - Страниц: 338
...Immortality of 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... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - Страниц: 370
...IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.From the Tragedy of Cato, by Addlson. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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 that... | |
 | William Martin - 1838 - Страниц: 368
...turn awry. And lose the name of action ! Shakspeare. LESSON II. CATO ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 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... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - Страниц: 342
...and his God. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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 that... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - Страниц: 346
...Soliloquy' on the Immortality of the Soul. — TRAGEDY OF CATO. 1. It must be so — Plato, f thou reasonest 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 that... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - Страниц: 298
...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...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds 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. 
