 | 1836 - 362 oldal
...improvement of my mind. Can you forgive me, and be still my friend ? As firmly aa I have ever been. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction? »Tis the Divinity that stirs within us. Where are you now ? and what is your amount ? Vexation, disappointment, and remorse. To purchase heaven,... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 1062 oldal
...a beautiful paraphrase of tinsense of the apostle, whether he had his words in view or not : — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horrar Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - 1837 - 204 oldal
...Plato's Book on (lie Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well!— Else whence this pleasing...shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at deslruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven iiself that points out an hereafter,... | |
 | R. T. Trall - 1996 - 116 oldal
...and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Willierforce. Du. WAYLANU. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. 1 It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else,...whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This 16nging after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught (... | |
 | Styan - 1965 - 168 oldal
...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him.' It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 oldal
...straining.' I find it very eloquent, very real, and infinitely more convincing than Addison's cold lines : It must be so, — Plato thou reasonest well — Else...hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? It is comforting to find an admirer of the Night Thoughts in Wordsworth, who writes in his Prelude... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 oldal
...hand Plato s book on the Immortality of the Soul:—* j4. drawn sword on the table by him. • Cato. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; —...this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at desnuetion? Tis the Divinity that stirs... | |
 | United States. 68th Cong., 2d sess., 1924-1925. House - 1925 - 104 oldal
...But it is said that there is no life without death and that in nature death is the prophecy of life. Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing...this fond desire, • This longing after immortality? Bryant says of the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 oldal
...|| heard of|| more." | 1 || ' Grave ' example for very ' slow time ' and very ' long pauses.' 2. " It must || be so. || Plato, || thou reasonest well...after immortality? |||| Or whence | this secret dread | | | arid inward horror | | | Of falling into nought? |||| Why | shrinks the soul | Back | on herself,... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 oldal
...afterlife by Plato's discussion of the immortality of the soul, asks the following and then takes his life. Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural... | |
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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. 
