 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...should they know their fete ? Since Sorrow never conies too late, And Happiness too swiftly flies: Thought would destroy their paradise. No more : where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. < COUNTRY BOX, 1757. BY ROBERT LLOYD, M. A, THE wealthy Cit, grown old in trade, Now wishes... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - 548 pages
...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. ODE IV. TO ADVERSITY. Zrjva Tov <f>povtiv aavra, r<p TraOti Qivra ylvscnvi.us, in Agaraemnone.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1821 - 192 pages
...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. ODES. TO ADVERSITY. Tov $fOvftV ( ITCtVTlt, T&v TJ JESCHYLUS. DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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. GRAY. CHAP. X. ELEGY, WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. THE curfew tolls the knell of parting... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...why should they know their fate ?Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Waller, and Bartlets both the brothers; be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY. Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast,' Whose... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 218 pages
...asylum in every bosom ; they enjoyed that kind of unrestrained happiness, which, to hearts of refined fined sensibility, would " fade in the eye, and pall...attention above all her companions ; she was fairest where VOL. II. . D all all were fair, or, in the ballad verse of Doctor Percy — As fair as fair might be... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1825 - 346 pages
...author : " Nam nos omnes, quibus alicunde aliquis objectus est la bos, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. 100 Ver. 97. And happiness too swifily flies.] " Optima quaeque dies miseris mortalihus aevi... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes t< o iate, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Gray. TO EDUCATION. WHEN now on Britain's sea-girt shore, Resounds the threat'ning voice of... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pages
...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. TO ADVERSITY. Tox tyovttv irayra, Toy ra£ci JKSCHYLl S. DAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power,... | |
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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. 
