 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...  HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Page 382by KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 370 pages
...alone, We. ' It must be so Plato, thou reason'g^well ••. dse whence this pleasing hope, this fonil desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "I'is the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 pages
...Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, ' This longing after immortality > ' Or whence tins secret dread, and inward horror, ' Of falling into...destruction > « 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 4 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, ' And intimates eternity to man. * Eternity! thou... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 pages
...the Immortality 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...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful, thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 532 pages
...the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sivord on the table by him. IT must be so Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? I 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafteii And intimates... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 638 pages
...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 354 pages
...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1859 - 602 pages
...him, on the possibility of there being another state of existence, after the close of this : — " It must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 1 'Tis the Divinity that stirs... | |
 | William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...had not disdain'd to hear. XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul. TRAGEDY or CATO. IT must be so— Plato thou reasonest well ! Else,...Whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling inlo nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...Or, whence thisrecret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Batk on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eterni ty ! — thoii pleasing— dreadful thought ! Through what new scenes and changes must we pass... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...AMERICAN ORATOK— ADDISOJT, Gate's Soliloquy. — ADD; SON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new... | |
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