 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
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "Pis the Divinity that stirs within us ; Tis Heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates...pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untry'd being, [pass ! Through what new scenes and changes must .we The wide, th' unbounded prospect... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
....' Or, Whence this secret dread, and inwaro* horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us : 'Tie heaven itself that points out an Hereafter And intimates Kteinity to man. Eternity .'— thou... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...,omp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cato's soiloquy are at once easy and sublime : pc lil'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...fatting into nought 'i Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? — 'Tig the Divinity that stirs within us : 'Tis Heaven itself,...what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect, lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it.— Here will... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 304 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 the Divinity that stirs within us ; "I'is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
 | 610 pages
...nature cries aloud in all her works, "that there's a power above," and we may safely conclude, that "'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us, "Tis Heaven itself that points oat an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." Yet if, in the course of our lucubrations, we are... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 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...being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pas* ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon... | |
 | John Nicholls - Great Britain - 1820 - 428 pages
...to assume a new form. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...excludes pomp, will admit greatness. Many lines in Cold's soliloquy are at once easy and sublime : Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; Tis Heaven...that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity tn man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 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,... | |
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