Why shrinks the 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. The British drama - Página 358por British drama - 1804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - 1830 - 454 páginas
...•.'» "Whence springs this pleasing hope the fond desire,. This longing after immortality ? Mvrsf Or whence this secret dread and inward horror/' "-^...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" • > '• .:- . • - •« V>3S It may likewise be proper to notice here, the tmxidy manifested by... | |
| British theatre - 1831 - 922 páginas
...reason's! well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immorlalily? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of...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,... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1831 - 288 páginas
...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for? *' Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...whence this secret dread, and inward horror • Of fallipg into nought ? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 páginas
...Douglas die. HOME, 3 CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope,...stirs within us-: 'Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought... | |
| 1832 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
| 1833 - 332 páginas
...Thy little one will sleep. CATO REASONING ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so : Plato, thou reasonest well ! Else whence this pleasing hope —...destruction ? 'Tis the Divinity that stirs within us; "Pis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,... | |
| William Bailey (A.B.) - 534 páginas
...dejection and disquietude. We might safely assert that such natural reasonings, and meditations as — " Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This...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,... | |
| Charles Feist - 1833 - 304 páginas
...the still small voice " within us will effectually speak peace to the troubled waters of our souls. " Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out a hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." The wisest men, in all ages, have expressed some faint... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 páginas
...XXV. Cato's Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul. — ADDISON. IT must be so' — Plato', thou reasonest well' — Else', whence this pleasing hope',...immortality'? Or', whence this secret dread' and inward horrour', Of falling into nought'? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction'?... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1834 - 188 páginas
...The note of interrogation (?) is inserted at the end of a sentence which contains a question; as, " Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us." &c., and also to invocations or addresses; HS, " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!" The following... | |
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