 ... 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 joy. The lifted axe, the...  The Life of Samuel Johnson - Pàgina 404per James Boswell - 1880Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. DEAR SIR, I CAN have no expectations, in an address of... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pàgines
...smooth current of dqmestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. In this circle was numbered Edmund Burke, who was at once a scholar and a parliamentary orator of a... | |
 | Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy: The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." That all our happiness does not depend on governments, is too plain to be insisted upon; but that the... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, ' Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, ^ To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. * In this circle was numbered Edmund Burke, who V . was at once a scholar and a parliamentary afator... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pàgines
...observation and feelings of its nuthor. —ED.] To men remote from power, but rarely known, ,i':ui' reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." He added, " These are all of which I can >e sure." They bear a small proportion to the whole, which consists of four hundred and thirty-eight... | |
 | 1833 - 372 pàgines
...domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown and Damien's bed of steel, To those remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own." We cannot refrain from subjoining the following well-merited compliment to Burke— a statesman, undoubtedly,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power, but rarely...Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted, mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly ; while those... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pàgines
...in a peculiar degree, seems written from the personal observation and feelings of its author. -ED.] To men remote from power, but rarely known, Leave...verses. Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted 4, mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. FIRST PRINTED IH MDCCLXIX. H1R JOSHUA REYNOLDS. DEAR SIR, I CAN have no expectations... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pàgines
...smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power, but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." An anecdote connected with the preparation of this poem has been preserved, and is interesting, not... | |
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