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... The British Drama: Tragedies. 2 v - Pàgina 3581804Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 286 pàgines
...alone, &c. Else whence lhis pjeasing hope, this fond desire. This lunging after immortality ; Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction • "I'is the Divinity that stirs within us ; "1'is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, Eternity!... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 pàgines
...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 - 1823 - 378 pàgines
...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 - 1823 - 690 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1823 - 624 pàgines
...pursuits in which she has been detained, plunges into the future; and either anxiously inquires, • Through what variety of untried being, through what new scenes and changes must I pass?' — or expatiates on the bright and blissful prospects which revelation offers to the eye... | |
| 1824 - 348 pàgines
...— Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire ! This longing after immortality? Or, whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...pleasing — dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untry'd beings, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect... | |
| British drama - 1824 - 834 pàgines
...[soul Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis tlie divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself...Through what new scenes and changes, must we pass ? [me : The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heav'u itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Mdison's Cato. The soul... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 458 pàgines
...reason's! wellElse whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the aivinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis Ueav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity... | |
| 1824 - 660 pàgines
...reasonest well; Else when 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 nerself and startles at destruction ? "I'is the Divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself... | |
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