| English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...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 fond desire,...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
| English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...A SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADD1SON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...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 drama - 1804 - 510 pages
...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn ncord on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, иnН inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at... | |
| English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...Immortality nf the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or wheuce this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on... | |
| Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...SOLILOQUY. ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...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... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...in her praise ! CATQ. CHAP. VIII. CATO's SOLILOQUY. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire.,...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horroty ©f falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 446 pages
...the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality i Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...thee. A SOLILOQUY OH THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT must be so—Plato, thou reason's! well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul B*ck on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 272 pages
...iniluor. [Ensi manum admovei^ ACT V. SCENE I. CATO alone, * IT must be so Plato, thou reason's! well— * Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, ' This longing after immortality > ' Or whence tins secret dread, and inward horror, ' Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul • Back on herself,... | |
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