 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 lehte
...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 fond desire, This longing after immortality1 Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 lehte
...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 fond desire, This longing after immortality'l Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror. Of falling into nought 1 Why shrinks... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 lehte
...accounted for? "Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This loniring after Immortality Î Or, whence this secret dread, and Inward horror, Of...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceed» the want we feel amidst the variety of objecta which surround us ? Whence vis« the... | |
 | 1839 - 544 lehte
...IToufcnoto, WU tatjer ife tjanifsofies sou. Scene.—A Chamber. Cato. It must be "so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 lehte
...Calo. It must be so ; — Plato, thou rcasonest well ; — Else whence this pli-aMiig hope, this fund desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of fjlling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction ? 'TU the divinity... | |
 | 1839 - 320 lehte
...Hull, wedded love 1 mysterious law," &c. She then soliloquises.] It must be so ! Milton thou reasonest well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire ? This longing after matrimony ? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of dying unespoused ? why shrinks the heart... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us? Whence arises the... | |
 | 1846 - 670 lehte
...given us this ambition to live is itself a sure and certain pledge of an endless state of being. " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction * 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 lehte
...enveloped him, and which has been put in the mouth of every school-boy, in the language of Addison. "—— Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 lehte
...begun ; A Deity ador'd , is joy advane'd ; A Deity belov'd , is joy matur'd. (Young's N. Thoughts.) Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity which stirs within us. {Madison's Cato.) 1. To DELAY, 2. DEFER, 3. POSTPONE. 1. 5CufJdjteï>en , oerfdjte6en,... | |
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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. 
