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  • Soliloquy: On Immortality

    From “Cato,” Act V. Sc. 1.
    SCENE.—CATO, sitting in a thoughtful posture, with Plato’s book on the Immortality of the Soul in his hand, and a drawn sword on the table by him.

      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,
    ...

    Joseph Addison

  • The Immortality of Genius

    From the Latin by Dr. James Cranstoun
    ORPHEUS, ’t is said, the Thracian lyre-strings sweeping,
      Stayed the swift stream and soothed the savage brute;
    Cithæron’s rocks, to Thebes spontaneous leaping,
      Rose into walls before Amphion’s lute.

    With dripping steeds did Galatea follow,
      ’Neath Ætna’s crags, lone Polyphemus’s song:
    Is ’t...

    Propertius