The immortality ode.

Our date to immortality extend?

I believe a brain becomes a mind only when an immortality exterior to ourselves animates it.

Very, very few of us can join in Sir Boyle Roche's blundering sneer at posterity, and with the hope of immortality mingles a dread of utter oblivion here.

If souls no immortality obtain, 'Tis fit our bodies should be out of pain.

In all those qualities which give immortality classical poetry has never been surpassed, whether in simplicity, in passion, in fervor, in fidelity to nature, in wit, or in imagination.

Whether he deemed the knowledge of the cup of immortality conducive to this end I cannot say, but the question doth not arise, for I do not possess it.

" Of this immortality principle in literature Milton himself, it need hardly be said, is one of the great exemplars.