 | George Hart - 1881 - 552 pagini
...performance was interrupted now and again with such observations as, "How like! How suggestive ! " " Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know," thought I, and left the group, fortified with another illustration of how " Great floods have flown... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pagini
...know not what we may be. A// . ll,l:,l. IV. 5. Ask not bodies doomed to die, To what abode they go, Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. Davenaat, Philosopher and Looer. Sore there is none but fears a future state ; And when the most obd'rate... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 pagini
...DAVENANT. 1605-1668. Th' assembled souls of all that men held wise. Gomlibert. Book ii. Canto v. St. 37. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. 4 The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. \. 1 Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pagini
...BROWNING— Sonnet. Futurity müh the Departed But ask not bodies (loomed to die, To what abode they go; Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy. It is not safe to know. q. D AVENANT — The Just Italian. Act V Sc. 1. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagini
...DAVEXANT. 1C05-16C8. The assembled souls of all that men held wise. Gondi/jcrt. Book ii. Canto v. St. 37. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know." The Just Italian. Act v. Sc. 1. JOHN WINTIIROP. 1588-1649. A liberty to that only which is good, jnst,... | |
 | 1883 - 502 pagini
...every side " Sir Jno. Davits. " His red, right hand." Milton. "Rubente dextera." Horace. ushed 159. " Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know." Davenant. " Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." Gray. " From ignorance our comport flows... | |
 | Arthur Henry Bullen - 1889 - 168 pagini
...dares doubt the poets wise ? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doomed to die To what abode they go ; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy It is not safe to know. By SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. '"T^HE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest •*• And, climbing, shakes his dewy... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1895 - 190 pagini
...only wretched are the wise." From ignorance our comfort flows, only " and Davenant, Just Italian : " Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, it is not safe to know." OIKOYMENH XPON05IAIAI OAY22EIA OMHP02 MY60I HOMER ENTHRONED. THE PROGRESS OF POESY. THIS Ode, as we... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 pagini
...so meek And full of courtesy, that he would lend The devil his cloak, and stand i' th' rain himself. Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy It is not safe to know, CONSCIENCE. —Gondibcrt. FOR though the judge, Conscience makes no show, But silently to her dark... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pagini
...BUTLER— Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 580. But ask not bodies (doomed to die), To what abode they go ; trange. y. DANIEL WEBSTER — Argument o i. DAVENANT — The Just Italian. Act. V. Sc. 1. Song. What cities, as great as this, have * • *... | |
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Is changed at least into a star; And who dares doubt the poets wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doomed to die To what abode they go; Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. 
