| Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 Seiten
...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...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us? Whence arises the... | |
| 1877 - 506 Seiten
...expressed this view of the origin of the conviction : — " 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 Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man, Eternity ! thou... | |
| 1846 - 670 Seiten
...given us this ambition to live is itself a sure and certain pledge of an endless state of being. " Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction * 'Tis the divinity that... | |
| United States. 76th Congress, 1st sess., 1939 - 1939 - 116 Seiten
...Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling Into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
| United States. Congress - 1939 - 114 Seiten
...Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling Into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Tis the divinity that stirs... | |
| United States. Congress - 1939 - 140 Seiten
...Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well) Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling Into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Its the divinity that stirs... | |
| United States. Congress - 1939 - 140 Seiten
...Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
| United States. Congress House - 1939 - 60 Seiten
...book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, them reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this...this secret dread, and Inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why ahrtnica the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Tis the divinity that... | |
| United States. Congress House - 1939 - 76 Seiten
...Immortality of the Soul in his hand and a drawn sword on the table before him: Plato, thou reasonest well I Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,...this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling Into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? "Tls the divinity that stirs... | |
| Styan - 1965 - 168 Seiten
...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... | |
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