 | John Wilkes - 1805 - 348 pages
...sorrow never comes, too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. GRAY. The parcel, with the enclosures for 39 Dr. Price, is not yet arrived. Mrs. Gordon I saw to-day;... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, . And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. EXTRACT FROM THE PROGRESS OF POESY. Is climes beyond the solar road, Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies, Thought would destroy their paradise. .No more — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. GRAY RECOLLECTIONS OF GREECE. CLIME of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 562 pages
...But when we reflect how small is the portion of happiness that sometimes comes to dwell in the same heart in after life, is it not unjust to abridge the..." Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies, No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise." Of youthful, or... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - 1851 - 522 pages
...that sometimes comes to dwell in the same 74 FRIENDSHIPS OF BOYHOOD. heart in after life, is it net unjust to abridge the innocent joys of childhood ?...swiftly flies, No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.' Of youthful, or rather boyish friendships formed at this early period of my... | |
 | Sophocles - Greek drama - 1851 - 362 pages
...to come Nor care beyond to day." And again, v. 98 fg. : — " Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss 'T is folly to be wise." Mliton, Comui, 359 : — " Peace, brother ; be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their happiness. No more; where ignorance is bliss 'T is folly to be wise. Gray, ILL— ILLS. STRONG virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, Exerts itself, and then throws... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise : No more ; where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. GRAY. in SI'NO BY OUIDEIU'S AND AEVTRAGUS OVER FIDELE, SUPPOSED TO BK DEAD. To fair Fidele's grassy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1858 - 196 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. HYMN TO ADVERSITY. — Ziiva — sssss Tov i/>|iM in BpoToit? 6d(«iravTa, TIJJ ttatfci [iadtov ii,1,,(... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise ! No more ; — where ignorance is bliss, 'T is folly to be wise. T. Gray CLIX HYMN TO ADVERSITY r^vAUGHTER of Jove, relentless power, -L/ Thou tamer of the human breast,... | |
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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, "T is folly to be wise. 
