 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 496 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. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT Love Proscribed rAKE all the dead! what ho! what ho! How soundly they sleep whose... | |
 | Margery Arent Safir, Stephen Jay Gould, State University of New York - 1999 - 220 pagini
...serves as the epigraph to Trade Winds: "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." * On Archipelago, see Swenson and Metz. On Tlacuilo, see Galarza and Metz. 47 role. For each, "doing... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - 492 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. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT Love Proscribed r AKE all the dead ! what ho ! what ho ! How soundly they sleep... | |
 | 320 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 puts this quotation into a letter from his Pamela (jealous of her... | |
 | William Hugh Logan - 1872 - 474 pagini
...his abject kind For some eternal use. 2. 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. Enter MERVOLLE. Of graves ! 'till you disquiet all the spheres, And put harmonious nature out of tune.... | |
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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. 
