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 - Pàgina 25per Thomas Gray - 1770 - 120 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pàgines
...or sublimity. In the classic ode on Eton college, the poet exclaims — " To each their sufferings, all are men Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for their own." Who but a half-witted dunce would ask how those that are unfeeling can have sufferings... | |
| 1826 - 310 pàgines
...fill the baud, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender...another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes t< o iate, And happiness too swiftly flies ?... | |
| J. Coad - 1826 - 264 pàgines
...or other of their lives, experience revolutions from happiness to misery — ' Each his sufferings, all are men Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own.' " I may well continue the quotation, for who that looks back on the bright... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1826 - 190 pàgines
...to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow consuming Age. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too... | |
| William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pàgines
...fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand And slow consuming Age. L 3 To each his suff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; • ' • The tender for another's pain, . 'e, *' Th1 unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! Why should they know their fate 2 Since Sorrow never comes... | |
| 1827 - 368 pàgines
..."-Man was made to mourn ;" and Gray finely remarks, that Fate has given / " To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, 'I'll' unfeeling for his own." All we ask is, that if the morn was tempestnous, the evening may be... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pàgines
...to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. — Pope. DCCCXXXI1L To each his suff 'rings; 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 their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies' Thought... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...make himself superior to the other by forgiving it. — Pope. DCCCXXXIII. To each his suff 'rings; 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 their fate, Since sorrow never conies too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pàgines
...fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming age. To each his sufferings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender...another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, . And happiness too swiftly flies ?... | |
| Edward Young, William Danby - 1832 - 306 pàgines
...will become more vivid, by participation with it. But if Gray truly says, " To each his sufTrings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own ;" this feeling must produce pain as well as pleasure; and indeed must add to the pain which our own... | |
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