 | 1839 - 544 Seiten
...IToufcnoto, WU tatjer ife tjanifsofies sou. Scene.—A Chamber. Cato. It must be "so—Plato, thou reasonest well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 Seiten
...Calo. It must be so ; — Plato, thou rcasonest well ; — Else whence this pli-aMiig hope, this fund desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of fjlling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction ? 'TU the divinity... | |
 | 1839 - 320 Seiten
...Hull, wedded love 1 mysterious law," &c. She then soliloquises.] It must be so ! Milton thou reasonest well : Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire ? This longing after matrimony ? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror Of dying unespoused ? why shrinks the heart... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 408 Seiten
...Addison put into the mouth of Cato those well-known words: It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs... | |
 | United States. 73d Congress, 2d session, 1934. House - 1934 - 80 Seiten
...yearning unfulfilled? Cato's thoughts are ours when he says: It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...dread, and Inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why gvinnirg the soul 120] Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Tls the divinity that stirs within... | |
 | 1936 - 160 Seiten
...said that there is no life without death. That death is the prophecy of life. Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality. Bryant teaches us a beautiful lesson relative to the migratory bird: There is a Power whose care Teaches... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 Seiten
...there is no life without death and that in nature death is the prophecy of life. "Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, 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... | |
 | United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 Seiten
...there is no life without death and that in nature death is the prophecy of life. "Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, 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... | |
 | Styan - 1965 - 168 Seiten
...posture. In his hand is Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him.' It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! —...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 Seiten
...and infinitely more convincing than Addison's cold lines : It must be so, — Plato thou reasonest well — Else whence this pleasing 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... | |
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It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest 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... 
