 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 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 III. TO ADVERSITY. Daughter of Jove, relentless Power ! Thou Tamer of the human breast... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 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. The Progress of Poesy. I. Awake , Aeolian lyre , awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1853 - 200 pages
...why should they know their fate, 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. Jo -ZT/vaTdv </>povtiv ftporoiif 66uoavTa, TOV vrudet l1a.o(; QevTa Kvpiut; $xetv. AESCHYLUS.... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 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! and ideally refined. His most popular poem, " The Passions," can hardly be allowed to be his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 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. IV.— HYMN TO ADVERSITY. Zijra ........ Top tppovttv ftpmniis ojaxravra, ry iradei juiBos... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1856 - 234 pages
...sits stitching, and surprise that precious woman by exclaiming with the poet's pensive enthusiasm ; " Thought would destroy their Paradise, No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." Columbus, also, had possessions in the West ; and as I read aloud the romantic story of his... | |
 | 1856 - 374 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. DCCCXXXIV. The abilities of man must fall short on one side or other, like too scanty... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...©e(bjtfu*t bei ber eigntn. 9ld), bleifet ftrn, ber 3u!unft fiunbe ! 3u balb nur fomrat bie ffntflittf tai Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more ; where ignorance is bliss, "Tis folly to be wise. TOBIAS SMOLLET. Born 1721. f 1771. The Tears of Scotland. Mourn, hapless Caledonia, mourn... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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. Thyrsis, when we parted, swore Ere the spring he would return — Ah ! what means yon violet... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 466 pages
...should they know their fate I 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. long Itonj. THE Long Story is so entitled in deprecation of any tedium which the reader might... | |
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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. 
