| G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 Seiten
...sympathy: To each his suffering: 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...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. This stanza eschews the visible for the spoken: proverb or motto is exchanged for emblem.... | |
| Richard Lander, John Lander - 2004 - 332 Seiten
...contented, happy and full of life. They think of little else — 'Thought would destroy their paradise.' 1 1 Yet ah ! why should they know their fate ? Since sorrow...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, II. 91-6. Sunday, October 3rd. —... | |
| Edward Leeson - 2004 - 728 Seiten
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| Sandra Sherman, Henry Chotkowski - 2004 - 432 Seiten
...Glasse's exact contemporary, the poet Thomas Gray, himself a cook, penned these immortal lines: . . . happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy...paradise. No more, where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. We should note that scholars dispute the size of eighteenth-century eggs, some claiming that... | |
| Meredith Allady - 2004 - 382 Seiten
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| Herbert Grabes - 2005 - 408 Seiten
...for then hast seen / Full many a sprightly race," and To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The...paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. (History 144) He celebrates heroism and patriotism with Richard Lovelace's "TO LUCASTA, OR,... | |
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