 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 lehte
...the Immortality of the Soul ; a drawn smord on the table beside him.] It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this...secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 7 "Pis the divinity that stirs... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 lehte
...Book on (lie Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— Else whence this pleasing hope,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at deslruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 lehte
...reason's! well— Else whence this pleading hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality 7 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction T Tie the divinity that stin* within us ; 'Tie Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | 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
...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...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... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 lehte
...very real, and infinitely more convincing than Addison's cold lines : It must be so, — Plato thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? It is comforting to find an admirer of the Night Thoughts in Wordsworth, who writes in his Prelude... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 lehte
...Immortality of the Soul:—* j4. drawn sword on the table by him. • Cato. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; — Else whence this pleasing hope,...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,... | |
 | United States. 68th Cong., 2d sess., 1924-1925. House - 1925 - 104 lehte
...said that there is no life without death and that in nature death is the prophecy of life. Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, • This longing after immortality? Bryant says of the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 lehte
...' example for very ' slow time ' and very ' long pauses.' 2. " It must || be so. || Plato, || thou reasonest well ! || Else | whence | this pleasing...after immortality? |||| Or whence | this secret dread | | | arid inward horror | | | Of falling into nought? |||| Why | shrinks the soul | Back | on herself,... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1901 - 938 lehte
...their bright faces again. "It must be so: Plato thon reasoneth well: Else whence this pleasiugjiope, this fond desire This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of sinking into naught? Why shriuks the soul back on itself. Aud startles at destruction?... | |
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Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. 
