 | English drama - 1797 - 462 pages
...posture ; in his hand Plato' j book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well — Else...hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 452 pages
...posture : in his hand I Plato'* booh on the Immortality 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 fourt desire, слто. 79 if ter immortality t s secret*dread, and inward horror, i nought ? Why shrinks... | |
 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee. A SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADD1SON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else...this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...posture: in his hand Plata's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. J_T must be so — • — Plato, thou reason'st well...this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...Immortality nf the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or wheuce this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn word on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thon 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...currents turn awry, And lose the name of action. (ADDISON.) IT must be so— Plato, thou reason's! 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...to thee. SOLILOQUY. ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. ADDISON. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...virtues. SYPM. How does your tongue grow %vanton in her praise ! CATQ. CHAP. VIII. CATO's SOLILOQUY. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else...this fond desire., This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horroty ©f falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back... | |
 | George Farquhar - Authors, English - 1808 - 338 pages
...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn Sword on the Table, by him. Cato. It must be so — Plato, thou reasor.'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... | |
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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. 
