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
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...the divinity that stiis wiihin us: "Tis t.eaven itself that points out an Hereafter, And intimaies Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing:, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried bei.^g Through what new scenes and changes must we pas; The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before... | |
| John Nicholls - Great Britain - 1822 - 442 pages
...assume a new form. 239 The human mind trembles at the contemplation of these probable events : — " Through what variety of untried being, Through what...pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before us, But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it." The changes which I have alluded to, will not... | |
| Luke Booker - Future life - 1822 - 192 pages
...whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul •Back en 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." ADDISON'S CATO. These... | |
| 1854 - 1112 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 ua ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." The soul he regarded... | |
| Richard Harrison Black - 1822 - 376 pages
...Hosea iv. 12. — Divinity. The supreme Being. " "f is the iffrafitv that stirs within ns, " "I'is heaven itself that points out an hereafter, " And intimates eternity to man." Additon. Divulge. See Dig. Doctor. See DocEo. One that has taken the highest degree in the faculties... | |
| Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...horror, Of falling into- naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "I'is the Divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis. heaven itself...pleasing, dreadful thought ! ' Through what variety of nntry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass f The wide, Hi' unbounded prospect... | |
| Theology - 1822 - 500 pages
...be ! Else whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought i Why sluinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis...out an hereafter ; And intimates Eternity to man." Corresponding to this dread of annihilation, is the desire after immortality. But here the objection... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pages
...excludes pomp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cato's soliloquy are at once easy and sublime : 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven...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... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...it excludes pomp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cato's soliloquy are at once easy and sublime: The divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there is a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro" all her works, he must... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...excludes pomp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cato's soliloquy are at once easy and sublime : The divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to mau. -If there is a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he... | |
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