 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.  The Works of Thomas Gray, Esq - Side 372av Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1827 - 446 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Sango Mbella - 2005 - 304 sider
...person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. -Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835) Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow...their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, T/'s folly to be wise. -Thomas Gray (1716- 1771) 125 - You must respect to be respected. There are... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - 2005 - 556 sider
...Gray's poem is the poet's, there is a classical distance that leads to the reflective conclusion: ". . . Why should they know their Fate? / Since Sorrow never...comes too late, / And Happiness too swiftly flies. I ... I No more: where ignorance is Bliss, / 'Tis Folly to be wise." Smith's sonnet begins and ends... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - 2005 - 244 sider
..."thoughtless" bliss of lines 31-50 and the man-traps of lines 51-90, the narrator is qualified to conclude that Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. As K. remarks in The Castle, "against a joke there is no argument." The joke, in fact, is... | |
 | George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 sider
...is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise, Where. 1742: T. Gray, Ode nn a Distant prospect /if Eton Си/lege, Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. 1865: Surtecs: Facey RomjorJ's Hounds, Ixxi, Of course, Facey knew nothing about I.ucy, and,... | |
 | Roger A. Pielke, Jr - 2007 - 198 sider
...bliss": To each his suff 'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (Gray 1747) Ignorance's bliss usually doesn't last for very long. Because we constantly find... | |
 | 蘇其康 - 2007 - 392 sider
...免人生的苦痛， 而快 樂又十分短暫; 思考未來只會破壞眼前的美好時光， 無知才 是幸福: Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (95-100) 8 幽 塚， 在作品出版當時可謂一大創舉。 當夜幕低垂時， 詩中那位孤獨寂... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 sider
...: To each his suff 'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain ; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they...paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (9 1 -1 oo) The Augustan sense of life's folly pervades these lines, but the Augustans looked... | |
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