 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 pagini
...ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise." And Mitford from Davenant's Just Italian, "since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, it is not safe to know." It is noticeable that Richardson putsQiis quotation into a letter from his Pamela (jealous of her Mr... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1901 - 1190 pagini
...who dares doubt the poets wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go ; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The difPring world's agreeing sacrifice;... | |
 | 1903 - 758 pagini
...öertoeift ju ber eben Ьеаегфпе1еп ©ratjftette ua auf 3)aüenant, The Just Italian, ~V, 1 'Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know', überlebt aber ïljeobalba Sieb Dull Bus'ness, hence! bal, tote гф glaube, ©racé SSerfen — foenigftenâ... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pagini
...Shakespeare in your three-fold, four-fold tomb. — On Shakespeare. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT. 1605-1668. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. — The Just Italian. Act V, Sec. v. SIR JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668. Though with those streams he no resemblance... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 pagini
...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. Sir W. Davenant 531 • Thy Bosom Is Endeared with All Hearts HPHY bosom is endeared with all hearts... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 pagini
...shall have communion Of what we feel and what doth us befall. — DANIEL, SAMUEL, 1599, Musophilus. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. — DAVENANT, SIR WILLIAM, 1630, The Just Italian, Act v, sc. 1. All foreign wisdom doth amount to... | |
 | Andrew Macphail - 1916 - 542 pagini
...dares doubt the poets wise ? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go ; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. XIX. THE SHROUDING ' Thou wilt be soft for me, my gentle shroud, Say, wilt thou not ? nor chafe my... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pagini
...D'Avenant (1606-1668) propounded the same idea in his play, The Just Italian (Act v., Scene 1) :— . . " Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know." It is scarcely necessary to point out that sayings of the kind are intimately connected with the confusion... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagini
...DANTE— Vision of Paradise. Canto VL 41. But ask not bodies (doomed to die), To what abode they go; f two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction. Antony and DAVENANT— The Just Italian. Act V. Sc. 1. 1 Thales was asked what was very difficult; he said: "To... | |
 | Edward Bliss Reed - 1925 - 410 pagini
...his abject kind For some eternal use. 2. 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. THE JUST ITALIAN, vi 1630. Boy: WEEP no more for what is past, For time in motion makes such haste... | |
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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. 
