 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.  A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes - Page 270edited by - 1755Full view - About this book
 | William Collins - English poetry - 1844 - 328 pages
...fill the hand, That numhs the aoul with icy hand, And •low'consuming Age. To each his suffYmgs : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, ~\Y* Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah ! why should they know their fate* Since sorrow never comes... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...seize their prey, the murderous band ! Ah, tell them they are men ! ****•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... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...shrunk appalled with abject terror, at the dangers which surrounded them. To each his suff'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. A general gloom pervaded the country ; for although the ravages 366 YELLOW FEVER. of the disease were... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 534 pages
...shrunk appalled with abject terror, at the dangers which surrounded them. To each his sufF'rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. A general gloom pervaded the country ; for although the ravages of the disease were yet confined to... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - English poetry - 1846 - 350 pages
...is common-place enough, has passed into a proverb : To each his sufferings ; all are men, Condemned 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... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...themselves, shrunk appalled with abject terror, at the dangers which surrounded them. To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for hia own. A general gloom pervaded the country; for although the ravages of"the disease were yet confined... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pages
...greater number we put on ourselves. Some may enjoy more than others, i But all alike must bear, for "all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own." There is that in the very sight of a great load, or of a weighty object,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1851 - 378 pages
...Poverty, to fill the band, That numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow-consuming Age. oo To each his suff' rings : all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan ; The...another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah ! why should they know their fate, 95 V'. 83. " Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of Pain," Pope. Essay on... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...numbs the soul with icy hand, And slow consuming Age. To each his suffrings : all are men, Condemned 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... | |
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