...a beautiful paraphrase of tinsense of the apostle, whether he had his words in view or not : — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horrar Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ?...

...and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Willierforce. Du. WAYLANU. CATO'S SOLILOQUY. 1 It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else,...whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This 16nging after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught (...

...Immortality of the Soul. A drawn sword on the table by him.' It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none of the hesitations...

...straining.' I find it very eloquent, very real, and infinitely more convincing than Addison's cold lines : It must be so, — Plato thou reasonest well — Else...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...

...hand Plato s book on the Immortality of the Soul:—* j4. drawn sword on the table by him. • Cato. IT must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; —...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,...

...But it is said that there is no life without death and that in nature death is the prophecy of life. Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing...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...

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...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...stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural desire for an immortality, assured...

...on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand. He soliloquizes: It must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well— Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...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...

...must be true." CHAPTER VII "Thou Great First Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that...