 | John Bell - English drama - 1791 - 292 pages
...£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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks...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... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 342 pages
...well Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ! 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'n itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1803 - 614 pages
...even to the present day, abound with verses of % simple redundant syllable: thus Addison — • 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us, Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.' So, frequently, in our didactic poems, even when subject to the control of rhyme, as in the following... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...-^ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; "Pis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...Firmnefs. Apprehen. Comfort. Noble. Pride. Triumph. This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs "within us ; 'Tis Hea-v'n itself that points out an Hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...wellElse whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought?...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates... | |
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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 soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... 
