How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic... The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Pàgina 499per James Boswell - 1820 - 512 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| John Bell - 1789 - 202 pàgines
...kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien'sbed of steel. To... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 396 pàgines
...kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place...felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no Iou4 storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel,... | |
| John Bell - 1789 - 416 pàgines
...endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign 'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien'sbed of steel. To... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pàgines
...human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves, in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pàgines
...the laws the homage of their respect, through the medium of the effects which they naturally produce. How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. It is, in fact, the g^peral diffufion of property, a security for what we pofless, and, above all,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pàgines
...kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To... | |
| 1831 - 652 pàgines
...inserted in Goldsmith's Traveller, express what seems to have been his deliberate judgment: — • How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure.' He had previously put expressions very similar into the mouth of Rasselas. It is amusing to contrast... | |
| Hannah More - 1803 - 474 pàgines
...reformation of our rulers and our legislators is all that is wanting to make us a happy people. Alas! How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part, which Kings or Laws can cause, or cure. The principles of just and equitable government were, perhaps, never more fully established, nor was... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pàgines
...human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find...no loud storms annoy. Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pàgines
...endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure, Still to ourselves in every place consigned. Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted ax, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To... | |
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