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 Science of Elocution - Page 124by S. S. Hamill - 1881 - 389 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Bell - 1791 - 292 pages
...must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — £lse whence this pleasing hope, this fo.id desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...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,... | |
| John Bell - 1797 - 462 pages
...solus, sitting in a thoughtful posture : in his hand Plato's booh on the Immortality of the Soul. This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...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,... | |
| 1797 - 462 pages
...this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horrer, Of falling into nought > Why shrinks the soul Back...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,... | |
| 1800 - 322 pages
...pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of falling into nought? Why shrinks...hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untry'd being,' Through what new scenes and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 320 pages
...Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nor-ght; Why shrinks the soul B ick on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the...hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! ' Through what variety of untry' d !): ing, Thro' what new s-enes... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...Or whence this seciet dread, and inward horror, Of falling into noight? Why shrinks the soul B ick on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the...hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity '. thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! ' Through what variety of untry'd being, Thro' what new scenes... | |
| 1803 - 342 pages
...alone, &c. IT must be so Plato, thou reasonest well Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...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,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pages
...pieces, even to the present day, abound with verses of % simple redundant syllable: thus Addison — • 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us, Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter.' So, frequently, in our didactic poems, even when subject to the control of rhyme, as in the following... | |
| British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...IT must be so — Plato, thon reasonest well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried heinc, Through what new scenes... | |
| 1804 - 516 pages
...well. Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or wheuce this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into...hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes... | |
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