 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 lehte
...not for him45 self.8 Norton. II. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. It must be so' — Plato, thou reasonest well !5 Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ?2 Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 5 Of falling into nought ?6 Why shrinks the•... | |
 | Joshua Bates - 1846 - 484 lehte
...argument of ancient philosophy has been beautifully expressed in modern poetry : Plato, thou reasonest well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...and startles at destruction. 'Tis the Divinity that stire within us ; • 'Tis Heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1939 - 140 lehte
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! 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? Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
 | United States. 76th Congress, 1st sess., 1939 - 1939 - 116 lehte
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! 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? Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1939 - 114 lehte
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! 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 stirs... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1939 - 76 lehte
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well I 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? "Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 lehte
...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... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 lehte
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
