 | Gene I. Maeroff - 1998 - 240 Seiten
...the Platonic ideal of schooling, should be left in its sublime innocence, which is to say, ignorance: Yet ah! Why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (Wain, 1969, p. 559) Too many American educators have taken Gray's ode to heart. BIBLIOGRAPHY... | |
 | George Monteiro - 2000 - 216 Seiten
...is: 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...more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.5 Significantly, Pessoa considered no event in his life to have been more determinant than... | |
 | Robert L. Mack - 2000 - 768 Seiten
...rhetorical gesture which seeks at least temporarily to shield the young from such dread knowledge: Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. (PTG 63) Unlike Gray's other poems commemorating West's death, the Eton Ode questions what... | |
 | 220 Seiten
...wealth. 69. This is from the last stanza of Thomas Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College": Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise. 70. From Shakespeare's Othello, The Moor of Venice, act 3, scene 3, lines 342-43: He that... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 2000 - 196 Seiten
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The 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. 
