 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
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; ;Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...too, we seek no change; and least of all, such change as they would bring usCATO'S SOLILOQUY. ADDISON. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? — I Tis the Divinity that stirs withirt us ; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 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 - 1829 - 420 pages
...not disdain'd to hear. XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.— TRAGEDY OF CATO. IT must be so — Plato thou reasonest well ! Else,...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
...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 untried being, Through what new... | |
 | 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 ? Tïs the divinity that stirs within us; TU beaVn itself that points out an hereafter, And intimai»... | |
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 pages
...reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immorlalily? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of...destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heav'ii itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Like Douglas conquer, or like Douglas die. HOME, 3 CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else,...stirs within us-: 'Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought... | |
 | S.C. Hall - 1833 - 380 pages
....:;~ ,v ui. ill Nu ir.' i•'».- "MU'i CATO REASONING ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE 6OUL. IT must be BO : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being — Through what... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...unavenged? — Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire! CATOS SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...— an hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
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