 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...  Class-book of English poetry - Page 344by English poetry - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...of different kinds of divination. Deut. xviii. 10. Hosea iv. 12. — Divinity. The supreme Being, " "Tis the divinity that stirs within us, " 'Tis heaven...out an hereafter, " And intimates eternity to man." Addison. Di-vulge, divulge, (vulgo, I make public,) I make public in different parts. Doctor. (See... | |
 | William Scott - Diccion - 1825 - 382 pages
...Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tjs the divinity that stirs within us : 'Tiatjieav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates...pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Apologetics - 1825 - 288 pages
...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...lines in Cato's soliloquy are at once easy and sublime : Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; TU Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. — If there's a power above us, And that their is all nature cries alond Thro' all her works, he must... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...lines in Cato's Soliloquy are at once easy and sublime : Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; '1'is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is all Nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought . Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis...variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and chaiges must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness... | |
 | R. T. Trall - 1996 - 116 pages
...horror, Of falling into naught ( Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Pis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. 2 Eternity! — though pleasing, dreadful thought! Through... | |
 | Shattuck - Drama - 1997 - 420 pages
...shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at desnuetion? Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates...being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass 1 The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.... | |
 | Geddes MacGregor - Religion - 1990 - 206 pages
...And was that Sappho last, which once it was before. The notion appears also in Addison: Eternity-thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The skeptical Voltaire once remarked that since resurrection runs all through nature, being born several... | |
 | Mark Bailey - Elocution - 1880 - 80 pages
...herself, || and startles || at destruction? |||| 'T is the Divinity ||| that stirs | within us : j| 'T is Heaven || itself | | | that points out an hereafter,...— | | | | thou pleasing, — | | dreadful thought ! " | | | | ' Pathetic ' example for ' slow ' standard time. 3. " Alas ! || my noble boy ! | | | that... | |
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