 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
 | British theatre - 1830 - 928 pàgines
...well — Els« whence ibis pleasing hope, ibis fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tïs the divinity that stirs within us; TU beaVn itself that points out an hereafter, And intimai»... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 pàgines
..."Whence springs this pleasing hope the fond desire,. This longing after immortality ? Mvrsf Or whence this secret dread and inward horror/' "-^ Of falling...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" • > '• .:- . • - •« V>3S It may likewise be proper to notice here, the tmxidy manifested by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pàgines
...,'••$ Back on herself, and startles nt destruction? 'Tjs the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tie heaven itself that points out an. hereafter, And intimates...to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought I Through what variety of untried being, Through what now scenes and changes must wo pass ? The wide,... | |
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 pàgines
...well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immorlalily? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; Tis heav'ii itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing,... | |
 | Shattuck - 1997 - 420 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...Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at desnuetion? Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,... | |
 | Geddes MacGregor - 1990 - 206 pàgines
...And was that Sappho last, which once it was before. The notion appears also in Addison: Eternity-thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! The skeptical Voltaire once remarked that since resurrection runs all through nature, being born several... | |
 | Mark Bailey - 1880 - 80 pàgines
...this fond desire, || This longing ||| after immortality? |||| Or whence | this secret dread | | | arid inward horror | | | Of falling into nought? |||| Why...Back | on herself, || and startles || at destruction? |||| 'T is the Divinity ||| that stirs | within us : j| 'T is Heaven || itself | | | that points out... | |
 | Jay Fliegelman - 1982 - 344 pàgines
...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...points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural desire for an immortality, assured by heaven, justifies Cato in delivering himself... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 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'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.52 In this speech the two... | |
 | Kerry S. Walters - 1999 - 236 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 nought? why shrinks the soul Back on her self, and startles at destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven it self,... | |
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