| Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...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...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tis the divinity,... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 458 pages
...the Soul. A dratcn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the aivinity that... | |
| English drama - 1824 - 660 pages
...Soul : a drau-n sword on thf table by him. Cato. It must be so; Plato, thou reasonest well; Else when this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on nerself and startles at destruction ? "I'is the Divinity that... | |
| William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...not disdain'd to hear. XV.— Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul IT must be so-^Plato, thou reasonest well '. — Else, whence this pleasing...this secret dread and inward horror. Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tjs the divinity that... | |
| Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...Arma en induvr [Ensi manum admoven>ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, $c. IT must be so Plato, thou reason's! well— — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...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... | |
| A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...the heart, a desire in the soul, which nothing short of such an exalted fellowship can supply : — " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?" And hence the readiness, even of savage nature, to believe in incantations, and to deify the wonders... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...well-known ; but the Soliloquy of Cato is the grand quotation.— It were a sort of derogation to omit it. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else...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... | |
| George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...well-known ; but the Soliloquy of Cato is the grand quotation.— It were a sort of derogation to omit it. It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else...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... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826 - 512 pages
...hand Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul : — a drawn sword lying by him on the table. Cato. It must be so; — Plato, thou reasonest well ; —...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction? "J'is the Divinity that... | |
| English drama - 1826 - 502 pages
...the Soul : — a drawn mord lying by him on the table. Cato. It must be so ;— Plato, thou rrasonest well ; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction t "Tig the Divinity that... | |
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