 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 442 pàgines
...performance. ACT V. SCENE I. CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : In his hand Plato'j book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pàgines
...Cato ('713.) ACT V. SCENE I. CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture: In his hand Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him, It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1906 - 270 pàgines
...the last act, according to the stage directions, " in a thoughtful posture, in his hand Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul," a drawn sword on the table beside him ; one can hear Cato's groans off stage : But hark ! what means that groan ? says his son... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1913 - 660 pàgines
...thus in the stage direction : " Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : in his hand Plato's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him." Regarding the Latin translation, Nichols supplies an interesting note. "This beautiful translation,... | |
 | Henry Brodribb Irving - 1907 - 240 pàgines
...the last act, according to the stage directions, " in a thoughtful posture, in his hand Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul," a drawn sword on the table beside him ; one can hear Cato's groans off" stage : But hark ! what means that groan ? says his son... | |
 | SIR PHILIP SIDNEY TO MACAULAY - 1910 - 474 pàgines
...to the scenery of the Fifth Act. Cato appears first upon the scene, sitting in a thoughtful posture; in his hand Plato's treatise on the Immortality of...place, forsooth, is a long hall. Let us suppose, that an\ r one should place himself in this posture, in the midst of one of our halls in London; that he... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 480 pàgines
...labor was not lost. ACT V SCENE I CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture: in his hand Plato's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
 | Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 482 pàgines
...not lost. ACT V SCENE I I CATO solus, fitting in a thoughtful posture : in \ his hand Plato's Book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. It must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1914 - 540 pàgines
...in 1713. ACT V. SCENE I. — CATO solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : In his hand Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him. IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
 | John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 860 pàgines
...was not lost. ACT V. SCENE 1. (Cato solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture: in his hand Plato's Book ie! You talk too like a puritan. Mrs. F. You have tempted me to mis It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,... | |
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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 at destruction... 
