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
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 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 u», And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 370 pages
...Of falling into nought. ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "I'is the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis Heaven itself...hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! lliou pleasing dreadful thought ! ' Through what variety of untry'd being, Thro' what new scenes... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...back on herself, and startles at destruction? 't is the divinity that stirs within us; 't is Heav'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, the unbounded, prospect... | |
| Samuel Drew - Immortality - 1810 - 232 pages
...HUMAN SOUL,, * FOUNDED SOLELY ON PHYSICAL AND RATIONAL PRINCIPLES. _, BY Si" DREW. 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,... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...destruction ? Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; And intimates eternity 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, th' unbounded prospect... | |
| Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - English literature - 1810 - 272 pages
...Or whence tins 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 ; 4 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, ' And intimates eternity to man. * Eternity! thou... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 540 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...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 - English literature - 1811 - 638 pages
...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis...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 - 1811 - 354 pages
...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis...pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...it 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. r— — — If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her... | |
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