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Bliss: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel-visits, few and far between. CAMPBELL The Pleasures of Hope. Pt. II. L.

Unending is this bliss. The pillared firmament and all the spheres May sink, perchance, in the long lapse of years, Swallowed in Night's abyss- But to the dwellers in Eternity A thousand years shall as a moment be.— ABRAHAM COLES — The Microcosm and

Other Poems. P. 289. Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise, that has survived the fall!— COWPER — The Task. Bk. III. L.41.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind.— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 423.

The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.— GRAY — Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. L. 45.

And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.— HOMER — Niad. Bk. XV. L. 583.

Pope's trans. Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know, That never feels a pain.— LORD LYTTLETON — Song.

But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.— MILTON — Comus. L. 262.

Bliss in possession will not last; Remember'd joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be.— S. MONTGOMERY — The Little Cloud.

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 57.

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 21.

и. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.— QUARLES — Esther.

I know I am-that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.— BAYARD TAYLOR — Prince Deukalion. Act IV.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health.— THOMSON — The Castle of Indolence. Canto II, St. 55.

We thinke no greater blisse then such To be as be we would, When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should.— WILLIAM WARNER — Albion's England. Bk. X. Ch. LIX. St. 68.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!— WORDSWORTH — The Prelude. Bk. XI.

That inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. C.— WORDSWORTH — I Wandered Lonely.

The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.— YOUNG — Night Thoughts. Night 1. L. 178.