 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 trang
...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 - 1831 - 288 trang
...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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 trang
...CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...— 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us-: 'Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 trang
...her bleak mountains smile. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, tliou reason's! 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! lliou pleasing,... | |
 | 1832 - 438 trang
...thou reasonest well— Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality P Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "I'is the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates... | |
 | William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 trang
...dejection and disquietude. We might safely assert that such natural reasonings, and meditations as — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide,... | |
 | S.C. Hall - 1833 - 380 trang
..."MU'i CATO REASONING ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE 6OUL. IT must be BO : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope— this fond desire —...destruction ? ' Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 trang
...Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire! CATOS SOLILOQUY. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...? — 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us: 'Tis Heaven itself, that points out — an hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity! — thou... | |
 | 1833 - 332 trang
...sleep. CATO REASONING ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope — this fond desire —...destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; "Pis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 trang
...the still small voice " within us will effectually speak peace to the troubled waters of our souls. " Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." The wisest men, in all ages,... | |
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IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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... 
