 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 the soul Back on herself, and startles...  HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS - Page 382by KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...gesture with the right arm, than to extend both. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. 1. It must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us 'T is heaven itself that points out an hereafter : And intimates... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason's! wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...destruction ? *Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. •> Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...wtih Plato'i book on the Immortality of the Soul in lan hand; and a drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well! Else...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | 1845 - 492 pages
...do no more ? Is this the whole of being? Is there no hereafter? Then is man most miserable. But— "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to mail." And who can estimate the value of a soul immortal ? " Behold this midnight glory ; worlds on... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...imth Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his Jmnd; and a drawn sword on the table by him, IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis tlje Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1845 - 492 pages
...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | 1845 - 904 pages
...whole of being? Is there no hereafter? Then is man most miserable. But— " Whence this pleasing hone, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ?...stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out au hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." And who can estimate the value of a soul immortal ? "... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...any further J a temp'tation/ to digre'ss. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT m'ust be so' — Pl'ato, thou reasonest we'll —...h'orror, Of falling into noug'ht ? Why shrinks the soul * Nouns ending in iiy, and adjectives in ible, should be pronounced at if terminating in ety and eble,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 pages
...longing after immortality ?2 Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, 5 Of falling into nought ?6 Why shrinks the• soul Back on herself, and startles...out — an hereafter, And intimates — eternity to man.3 10 Eternity !' — thou pleasing — dreadful thought!5 Through what variety of untried being,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...right arm, than to extend both. 30. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OP THE SOUL. — Addison. 1. It must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man. 2. Eternity ! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through... | |
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