 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...the heart, a desire in the soul, which nothing short of such an exalted fellowship can supply : — " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?" And hence the readiness, even of savage nature, to believe in incantations, and to deify the wonders... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...grand quotation.— It were a sort of derogation to omit it. 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... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...grand quotation.— It were a sort of derogation to omit it. 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... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 502 pages
...the Soul : — a drawn mord lying by him on the table. Cato. It must be so ;— Plato, thou rrasonest 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 t "Tig the Divinity that... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...I will better the instruction. Cato's Soliloquy. Shakspeare. IT must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?— "Pis the Divinity that... | |
 | 1827 - 422 pages
...Orbeique fractis ingercntur orbUnu ; filaia In icdcbis extra fragmina.' ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, &c. ' It must be so Plato, thou reason's! well Else whence...desire, This longing after immortality ; Or whence flits secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself,... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 pages
...-Unit wedded love! mysterious law, §-c.' She then soliloquises.) It must beso! Millón thou rensonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after matrimony? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of dying unespouscd? why shrinks the heart... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Sermons, English - 1827 - 516 pages
...the human mind, that man is intended for a better and happier state of existence hereafter. . :;.. " Else, whence this pleasing hope,, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ?" Why is this unquenchable thirst after knowledge implanted or generated in the human breast, if it... | |
 | British theatre - 1828 - 924 pages
...Pnsturr in lus Hand, Plato's Book он the Immorof the Soul. A drawn Sword on the 'Table, bjr him. Cato. It must be so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else...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... | |
 | Owen Williams - English drama - 1828 - 930 pages
...Plato's Book on the Immor talitjr of the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must he so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else whence this...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? NVhy shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
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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... 
