The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century VerseDavid Nichol Smith Clarendon Press, 1971 - 727 pages |
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Page 369
... 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 would destroy their paradise . No more ; where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly ...
... 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 would destroy their paradise . No more ; where ignorance is bliss , ' Tis folly ...
Page 427
... pain in each degree ; Bliss goes but to a certain bound , Beyond is agony Take then this treacherous sense of mine , Which dooms me still to smart ; Which pleasure can to pain refine , To pain new pangs impart . Oh ! haste to shed the ...
... pain in each degree ; Bliss goes but to a certain bound , Beyond is agony Take then this treacherous sense of mine , Which dooms me still to smart ; Which pleasure can to pain refine , To pain new pangs impart . Oh ! haste to shed the ...
Page 602
... pain , And long unheeded , knows remonstrance vain ; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of Man ; and silent sinks into the grave . But ere his death some pious doubts arise , Some simple fears which bold bad ' men despise ; Fain ...
... pain , And long unheeded , knows remonstrance vain ; He ceases now the feeble help to crave Of Man ; and silent sinks into the grave . But ere his death some pious doubts arise , Some simple fears which bold bad ' men despise ; Fain ...
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