 | Women - 1842 - 380 pages
...prepared at any moment for death ? Try the question ! We have been grateful, but not penitent ! 41 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Sickness attacks our ease commences its ra em, and fierce disin the midst nl our most blissful enjoyments,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...same subject. The following examples will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...both. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 1. 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 ? 'T is the divinity that... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1844 - 318 pages
...sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " 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 divinity that... | |
 | 1844 - 592 pages
...in the past, or yet to come. And yet the very idea of annihilation strikes the soul with horror. " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of Tailing into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herielf, and startles at destruction? Tii the divinity... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...longing after immortality ?2 Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 5 Of falling into nought ?6 Why shrinks the• soul Back on herself, and startles...out — an hereafter, And intimates — eternity to man.3 10 Eternity !' — thou pleasing — dreadful thought!5 Through what variety of untried being,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 312 pages
...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " 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 Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1845 - 492 pages
...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " 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 Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT m'ust be so' — Pl'ato, thou reasonest we'll — E'lse/ whence this pl'easing ho'pe, this...secret dre'ad, and inward h'orror, Of falling into noug'ht ? Why shrinks the soul * Nouns ending in iiy, and adjectives in ible, should be pronounced... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...the Soul in lan hand; and a drawn sword on the table by 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 ? 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. 
