 | Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 938 pages
...their bright faces again. "It must be so: Plato thon reasoneth well: Else whence this pleasiugjiope, this fond desire This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of sinking into naught? Why shriuks the soul back on itself. Aud startles at destruction?... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand. He soliloquizes: It must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...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?... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1712 pages
...must be true." CHAPTER VII "Thou Great First Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
...particularly to someone in Franklin's state of religious indecision: It must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on her self, and startles at destruction?... | |
 | Anne Kugler - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 318 pages
...asserted the immortality of the soul by using a speech from Addison's tragedy Cato: It must be So—Plato Thou Reasonest Well! Else whence this pleasing Hope,...longing after Immortality. Or Whence this Secret Dread and inward Horrour of ffalling into Naught? Why Shrinks the Soul Back on Her Self and Startles at Destruction?... | |
 | The General Assembly of Spiritualists - Spiritualism - 2006 - 145 pages
...touch the hand, And with lifted hearts, which understand, SELECTED QUOTATIONS: Joseph Addison wrote : "It must be so, — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else...after immortality? , Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - Religion - 2006 - 224 pages
...in the lines of Joseph Addison, the English poet, hymnodist, and playwright: It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope,...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?... | |
 | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ephraim Weber - Literary Collections - 2006 - 313 pages
...to authorize Montgomery's definition of 'rewards.' 17 From Cato 5.1, byjoseph Addison (1672—1719): 'It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well! / Else...this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?' Weber had quoted from Addison in his 29 October 1936 letter to Montgomery, as part of his discourse... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - Fiction - 2006 - 284 pages
...and Mark E. Yellin (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004], 88): It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...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?... | |
 | Kate Van Winkle Keller - Dance - 2007 - 720 pages
...WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY ASSEMBLY ROOM, WAITING FOR THE FIDDLERS It must be so — musick, thou charmest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after dancing! Or whence this secret dread, and inward thought, Of absent fidlers! Why shrinks the body Into... | |
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Why shrinks the 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 eternity to man. 
