| Stephen Jones - 1828 - 538 pages
...without rhyme, as in the heroic mea.sure of twelve syllables : Tis the Divinity that stirs within a, 'Til Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man. So in that of eight : They neither added nor eonfoindcrf. They neither wanted Dor abounded. In that... | |
| Thomas Dick - Future life - 1829 - 308 pages
...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for '! " Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us] Whence arises... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...the Immortality of the Soul.— TRAGEDY OF CATO. IT must be so — Plato thou reasonest well ! Else, Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality ? Or, Whence this secret dread, and inward horrour, Of failing into nought ? Why shrmks the soul • Buck on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1830 - 294 pages
...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, This...destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
| British theatre - 1830 - 928 pages
...bjr him. Cato. It musí be so — Plato tbou reason's! well — Els« whence ibis pleasing hope, ibis fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tïs the divinity that stirs within us; TU beaVn itself that points out an hereafter, And intimai»... | |
| John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...•.'» "Whence springs this pleasing hope the fond desire,. This longing after immortality ? Mvrsf Or whence this secret dread and inward horror/' "-^...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" • > '• .:- . • - •« V>3S It may likewise be proper to notice here, the tmxidy manifested by... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...Back on herself, and startles nt destruction? 'Tjs the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tie heaven s wit a vain pretence, For wit, like wine, intoxicates...brain, Too strong for feeble woraau to sustain : Of I Through what variety of untried being, Through what now scenes and changes must wo pass ? The wide,... | |
| British theatre - 1831 - 922 pages
...reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immorlalily? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of...destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heav'ii itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
| Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 288 pages
...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for? *' Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...whence this secret dread, and inward horror • Of fallipg into nought ? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence... | |
| Owen Williams - English drama - 1831 - 1106 pages
...horror, Of falling into nought? \Vhy shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, \itd intimates eternity to man. Eternity! ibou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of... | |
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