 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...  The Book of the Future Life - Page 28by Pauline W. Roose - 1900Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 292 pages
...by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — £lse whence this pleasing hope, this fo.id 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 at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...posture ; in his hand Plato' j book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well — Else...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : in his hand Plato's booh on the Immortality of the Soul. 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 at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 pages
...posture : in his hand I Plato'* booh on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fourt desire, слто. 79 if ter immortality t s secret*dread, and inward horror, i nought ? Why shrinks... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee. A SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADD1SON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else...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?... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 320 pages
...be sr Plato, thou rcason'st well . Else whence tliis pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longii g after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nor-ght; Why shrinks the soul B ick on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 408 pages
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 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...hxc vetant mori. ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, &c. IT must be so Plato, thou reasonest well Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ! 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...posture: in his hand Plata's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. J_T must be so — • — Plato, thou reason'st well...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn word on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thon reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs... | |
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