 | Alexander John Ellis - 1833 - 360 lehte
...store. DH THE DEATH OF AN AMERICAN CHIEFTAIN, By a wound received in an engagement with the Spaniards. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates an eternity to man. Additon't Cato. The setting... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 lehte
...fond desire', This longing after immortality'? Or', whence this secret dread' and inward horrour', Of falling into nought'? Why shrinks the soul Back...stirs within us', 'Tis heav'n itself that points out a hereafter', * Fardel, oppressive burden, And intimates eternity to man'. Etcrnit/!— Thou pleasmg',... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 lehte
...The note of interrogation (?) is inserted at the end of a sentence which contains a question; as, " Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us." &c., and also to invocations or addresses; HS, " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!" The following... | |
 | R. T. Trall - 1996 - 116 lehte
...so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This 16nging after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ( Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Pis the divinity that... | |
 | Styan - 1965 - 168 lehte
...It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! 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? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none of the hesitations... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 lehte
...must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at desnuetion? Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 lehte
...this fond desire, || This longing ||| after immortality? |||| Or whence | this secret dread | | | arid inward horror | | | Of falling into nought? |||| Why...Back | on herself, || and startles || at destruction? |||| 'T is the Divinity ||| that stirs | within us : j| 'T is Heaven || itself | | | that points out... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 lehte
...afterlife by Plato's discussion of the immortality of the soul, asks the following and then takes his life. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural desire... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 lehte
...soliloquizes: 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...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.52 In this speech the two crucial words "intimates" and "immortality" appear to be six lines apart,... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 lehte
...Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is 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... 
