 | Readers - 1824 - 323 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...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... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824
...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...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... | |
 | English drama - 1824
...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 after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on nerself and startles at destruction... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 372 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 239 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...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... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825
...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 - 959 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...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... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - English drama - 1826
...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 ; —...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?... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826
...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...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... | |
 | English drama - 1826
...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...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... | |
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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. 
