 Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate. Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.  Letters, 1784-1789 - Страница 39по John Wilkes - 1805Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | American Sunday-School Union - 1851 - 256 страници
...all are men, Condemned alike to groan ; The tender, for another's pain, The unfeeling, for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow...late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would disturb their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.' But," continued... | |
 | Sophocles - 1851 - 362 страници
...victims play ; No sense have they of ills to come Nor care beyond to day." And again, v. 98 fg. : — " Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; —...where ignorance is bliss 'T is folly to be wise." Mliton, Comui, 359 : — " Peace, brother ; be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain... | |
 | 1851 - 568 страници
...apothegm at the close of the following stanzas, in bis Ode On a Prospect of Eton College : " Yet, ah I why should they know their fate* Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies; Where ignorance it bliss, 'Til folly to be «•(>." The same thought is expressed by Sir W. Davenant... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1851 - 514 страници
...innocent joys of childhood ? ' Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness two swiftly flies, No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise.' Of youthful, or rather boyish friendships formed at this early period of my brother's life, I can remember... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 страници
...all are men, Condemn 'd alike to groan ; The tender, for another's pain, The unfeeling, for his own. Yet ah, why should they know their fate ' Since sorrow...their paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss 'Tis folly to be wise. AN ELEGY WRITTEN IN A CHURCH-YARD. ***** Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...their Paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. The Progress of Poesy. I. Awake , Aeolian lyre , awake, And give to rapture... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 страници
...— all are men, Condemned alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since...their paradise. No more : where ignorance is bliss, ' Tis folly to be wise. ODE III. TO ADVERSITY. Daughter of Jove, relentless Power ! Thou Tamer of the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 страници
...; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate ! Since...their paradise. — No more. Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. \ SI £nng itnri1. THE Long Story \a so entitled in deprecation of any tedium... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 страници
...all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, — The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate, Since Sorrow...their paradise. No more : where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ffilegg toritten in a ©ountrj? CCi)u«f)sar&. THE curfew tolls the knell of... | |
 | 1852 - 248 страници
...; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate ! Since...their paradise. — No more. Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. THE Long Story is so entitled in deprecation of any tedium which the reader... | |
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