...beside him and a copy of Plato's book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand. He soliloquizes: It must be so— Plato, thou reason'st well— Else...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,...

...moving, particularly to someone in Franklin's state of religious indecision: It must be so—Plato, thou reason'st well!— Else whence this pleasing...falling into nought? why shrinks the soul Back on her self, and startles at destruction? Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven it self,...

...and Mark E. Yellin (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004], 88): It must be so — Plato, thou reason's! well! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. (Vi1-9) 6 Stout, 278, is useful in noting Johnson's comment on Cato in the "Preface to Shakespeare"...

...Joseph Addison, the English poet, hymnodist, and playwright: It must be so—Plato, thou reasonest well! 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 stirs...

...which understand, SELECTED QUOTATIONS: Joseph Addison wrote : "It must be so, — Plato, thou reasonest well ! 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? 'T is the divinity that...