 | 1827 - 422 lehte
...filaia In icdcbis extra fragmina.' ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, &c. ' It must be so Plato, thou reason's! well Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ; Or whence flits secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself,... | |
 | John S. Skinner - 1827 - 434 lehte
...-Unit wedded love! mysterious law, §-c.' She then soliloquises.) It must beso! Millón thou rensonest well; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after matrimony? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of dying unespouscd? why shrinks the heart... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1827 - 516 lehte
...the human mind, that man is intended for a better and happier state of existence hereafter. . :;.. " Else, whence this pleasing hope,, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ?" Why is this unquenchable thirst after knowledge implanted or generated in the human breast, if it... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 lehte
...change; and least of all, such change as they would bring usCATO'S SOLILOQUY. ADDISON. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? — I Tis the Divinity... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 930 lehte
...talitjr of the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must he so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? NVhy shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 lehte
...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...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... | |
 | British theatre - 1828 - 924 lehte
...Immorof the Soul. A drawn Sword on the 'Table, bjr him. Cato. It must be so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of {ailing into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tu tbe divinity... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 926 lehte
...Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, bjr him. Calo. It must be so — Plato ihou reason'st •wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret tlread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Hack on herself, and startles... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 lehte
...hear. XV. — Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul.— TRAGEDY OF CATO. IT must be so — Plato thou reasonest well ! Else, Whence this pleasing...immortality ? Or, Whence this secret dread, and inward horrour, Of failing into nought ? Why shrmks the soul • Buck on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 lehte
...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...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence proceeds the... | |
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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. 
