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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... "
Angelology: Remarks & Reflections Touching the Agency & Ministration of Holy ... - Page 235
by George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 232 pages
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The Acting Drama; Containing Sixty Highly Popular Plays, Etc

Acting drama - English drama - 1839 - 936 pages
...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...
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Fly

1839 - 320 pages
...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...
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The philosophy of a future state

Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 pages
...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...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into nought? — Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds the...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 10

Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1928 - 408 pages
...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...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States ...

United States. 73d Congress, 2d session, 1934. House - 1934 - 80 pages
...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...
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 10028

United States - 1936 - 160 pages
...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...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States ...

United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 134 pages
...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...
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Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States ...

United States. 78th Cong., 2d sess., 1944. House, United States. Congress House - 1945 - 132 pages
...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...
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The Dramatic Experience

Styan - Drama - 1965 - 168 pages
...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 ! — Else whence this...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought? . . . In spite of the tempestuous idea, the sonorous regularity of these lines admits none...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 97

English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...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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