 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...orotund:" "Subdued and Suppressed" force : " Median stress.") " It must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into noughl ? Why shrinks... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...lawful sword. SHAKSPERE. DRAMATIC READINGS. ON IMMORTALITY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. xn — CATO'S SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire. This longing after immortality ? Or whence this sacred dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...to thee. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THB SOUL. It must be so — Plato,2 thou reason'st well, Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror 1 Tuscan. 3 The stvne represents him u... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...— it is there, my child !" CATO'S SOLILOQUY. SlrtUSOtt. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well ; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1861 - 372 pages
...with a balmy and beatified smile, and proceed to remark : " It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? " or else : "As I was surveying the moon walking1 in her brightness, and taking her progress... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...hand, and a drawn sword on the table before him :— SOLILOQUY. It must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortalityl Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought 1 why shrinks the... | |
 | George Clayton - Angels - 1851 - 278 pages
...based it on a period, even an hundred times more extended. — HUGH MILLER. " Plato, thou reason's! well, Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ! Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror — Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...the Soul In hla hand, and a drawn sword on the table bj him.) IT must bo so — Plato, thou reasonest well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...1672; DIED, 1710. OLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? t Or whence this secret dread and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks... | |
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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. 
