 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...to^hear. XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the So 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...lllresa tu sedebis extra fragmina. ACT Y. SCENE I. CATO ALONE, &C. It must be so Plato, thou reas'nest we 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 ? 'Tis the Divinity that... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 392 pages
...sedebis extra fragmina. 662 ACT V. SCENE I. CATO ALONE, &C. It must be so Plato, thou reas'nest we 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 ? 'Tis the Divinity that... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...immortality of the soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! 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,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Who oft'nest sacrifice are favor'd least. Ibid. IMMORTALITY. 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 ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 458 pages
...the Soul. A dratcn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! wellElse 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 aivinity that... | |
 | English drama - 1824 - 660 pages
...Soul : a drau-n sword on thf table by him. Cato. It must be so; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else when this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on nerself and startles at destruction ? "I'is the Divinity that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...Arma en induvr [Ensi manum admoven>ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, $c. IT must be so Plato, thou reason's! 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... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...shall go hard but I will better the instruction. Cato's Soliloquy. Shakspeare. IT must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well! Else, whence this pleasing hope,...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. 
