 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.  Poems by Mr. Gray - Seite 25von Thomas Gray - 1768 - 119 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Dodsley - 1755 - 348 Seiten
...fill the .band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff 'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender...another's pain ; 'Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why mould they know their fate I Since forrow never comes too late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies. Thought... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 344 Seiten
...vitals rage : Lo, poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike...another's pain ; 'Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why mould they know their fate ! Since forrow never comes too late, And happinefs too fwift'y flies. Thought... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1765 - 410 Seiten
...vitals rage : Lo, poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike...his own. Yet ah ! why fhould they know their fate I Since forrow never comes too late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies. Thought would deftroy their paradife.... | |
 | Collection - 1766 - 356 Seiten
...rage : Lo, poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, ' , And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike...why fhould they know their fate, Since forrow never conies too late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies* Thought would deftroy their paradife. No more ; where... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1768 - 142 Seiten
...the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming Age. To each his fufFrings: all are men, Condemn'd dlike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling -for his own. Yet ah ! why mould they know their fate ? Since forrow never comes too late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies. Thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 456 Seiten
...fill the band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming Age. To each his fufferings i all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. * — Madnefs laughing in his ireful mood. Dryden's Fable of Palamon and Arcite, Yet ah ! why fliould... | |
 | 1780 - 226 Seiten
...veintj That every labouring finew drains; That numbs the foul with icy hand; And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike...own. Yet, ah ! why fhould they know their fate? Since forrownever comes <oo late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies: Thought would deftroy their paradife.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 Seiten
...numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming Age. To each his fufferings i all are men, Condemn" d alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. * — • Madnefs laughing in his ireful mood. Dryden's Fable of Palamon and Arcite. Yet ah ! why mould... | |
 | 1782 - 370 Seiten
...band, That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fufPrings : all are rnen, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's...their fate ! Since forrow never comes too late, , And happioefs too fwiftly flies. Thought would deftroy their paradife. No more ; where ignorance is blifs,... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - 1782 - 386 Seiten
...rage ; Lo, poverty, to fill the band, , That numbs the foul with icy hand, And flow-confuming age. To each his fuff'rings: all are men, Condemn*d alike...another's pain ; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why fhoirld they know their fate ! Since forrow never comes too late, And happinefs too fwiftly flies.... | |
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