 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
 | 1851 - 568 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 380 sider
...Oo To each his sufferings : 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, ys V. 83. " Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of Pain," Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 118. Dryden. State... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 sider
...each his sufferings : — all are men, Condemned alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know...where ignorance is bliss, ' Tis folly to be wise. ODE III. TO ADVERSITY. Daughter of Jove, relentless Power ! Thou Tamer of the human breast ; Whose iron... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 sider
...To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, — The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they...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 parting day,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 sider
...each his sufferings : 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...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 shade,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 470 sider
...To each his sufferings ; 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...— 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 which the reader... | |
 | Cato Institute - 1985 - 312 sider
...formula works out in an unfavorable way. Thomas Gray's often-quoted lines probably apply here: . . . why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. 8 In short, our happiness in many areas of life may depend in some measure on our own illusions.... | |
 | Peter J. Manning - 1990 - 338 sider
...peace that he would extend if he could. The concluding lines are almost too celebrated to quote again: Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Wordsworth's lines almost systematically reverse Gray's. Wordsworth buries the Boy of Winander... | |
 | Kenneth George Wilson - 1993 - 508 sider
...THE QUOTATION OF A stanza or a couplet should usually be reproduced as it looks on the original page: Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. — Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, 96-100 If the passage is shorter,... | |
 | Klaus Peter Müller - 1993 - 560 sider
...die Thomas Gray in seinem Gedicht "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" zum Ausdruck bringt: "'Thought would destroy their paradise./ No more; where ignorance is bliss, /'Tis folly to be wise.'" Beckett läßt Winnie in Happy Days Teile aus diesem Gedicht sprechen. (Happy Days, S. 182.... | |
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