 | 1925 - 1028 lehte
...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
...Soul:—* j4. drawn sword on the table by him. • Cato. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...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
...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
...for very ' slow time ' and very ' long pauses.' 2. " It must || be so. || Plato, || thou reasonest well ! || Else | whence | this pleasing hope, || this...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?... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 lehte
...must be true." CHAPTER VII "Thou Great First Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "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? 'T is the divinity that... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 lehte
...moving, particularly to someone in Franklin's state of religious indecision: It must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing...falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on her self, and startles at destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven it self,... | |
 | Anne Kugler - 2002 - 318 lehte
...immortality of the soul by using a speech from Addison's tragedy Cato: It must be So—Plato Thou Reasonest Well! Else whence this pleasing Hope, This fond Desire,...Immortality. Or Whence this Secret Dread and inward Horrour of ffalling into Naught? Why Shrinks the Soul Back on Her Self and Startles at Destruction?... | |
 | The General Assembly of Spiritualists - 2006 - 145 lehte
...which understand, SELECTED QUOTATIONS: Joseph Addison wrote : "It must be so, — 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? 'T is the divinity that... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - 2006 - 224 lehte
...Joseph Addison, the English poet, hymnodist, and playwright: It must be so—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... | |
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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. 
