...thou reasonest well— Else why this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality P Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? "I'is the divinity that stirs within us ; "Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates...

...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! lliou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what being, Through what variety of untried The new scenes...

...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 ( Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Pis the divinity that...

...It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! 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? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none of the hesitations...

...must be so ; — Plato, thou reasonest well; — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret...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,...

...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...

...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...destruction? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter. And intimates eternity to man. The soul's natural desire...

...soliloquizes: 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...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.52 In this speech the two crucial words "intimates" and "immortality" appear to be six lines apart,...

...Cause, least understood." — POPE, Universal Prayer, 5. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence 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...

...emotive range. Johnson quotes lines from Addison's tragedy Cato that "are at once easy and sublime": 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heav'n itself that points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Nor does the speech lack elegance, though it is not elegance...