 | 1827 - 422 pages
...Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ; Or whence flits secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "Pis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 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...to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Thro' what variety of untry'd being, Thro' what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th'... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...they would bring us. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. ADDISON. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?— r 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | Owen Williams - English drama - 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...dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? NVhy shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within... | |
 | British theatre - 1828 - 924 pages
...Soul. A drawn Sword on the 'Table, bjr him. Cato. 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 {ailing into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tu tbe divinity... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us] Whence arises... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 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...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 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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tďs the divinity that stirs within us; TU beaVn itself that points out an hereafter, And intimai»... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...•.'» "Whence springs this pleasing hope the fond desire,. This longing after immortality ? Mvrsf Or whence this secret dread and inward horror/' "-^...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" • > '• .:- . • - •« V>3S It may likewise be proper to notice here, the tmxidy manifested by... | |
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IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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... 
