 How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.  Poetical Works - Stran 25avtor: Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 strani
...mind ! Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings...or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no load storms... | |
 | Sermons - 1825 - 406 strani
...whose sentiment it may not be improper to cite here, hath truly said, The Duties of the Divine Law. "How small, of all that human hearts endure, " That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure ?" These indeed are truths so plain and known that I need not dwell upon them, if unhappily there had... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 strani
...the mind ; Why have I stray'd, from pleasure and repose, To seek a good eaeh government bestows '; In every government, though terrors reign, Though...tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all mat human hearts endure, That part whieh laws or kings ean eause or eure ! Still to ourselves in every... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 strani
...degree, as Goldsmith says, consigned to ourselves, amidst all the varieties of social institutions . " In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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 men remote from... | |
 | John Gamble - 1826 - 374 strani
...complain of, than that they cannot command armies, preside as judges, or have seats in parliament. " In every government, though terrors reign, Though...annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy." CHAPTER XXIV. English and Irish vices contrasted — Mavey Cann's parlour — Murderer haunted by a... | |
 | 1826 - 300 strani
...in the mind. Why have 1 stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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 men remote from... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 430 strani
...by the Italick character : How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestick joy : The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel,... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 strani
...Can its dread thunder, or its lightening's force Derive their essence from a mortal source ? JENYNS. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. GOLDSMITH. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. SHAKSPEARE.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 strani
...by the Italic character: "How imall of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws > > @ 7 ) ? =x= ? ? ? ? ?~= = = =H@I@ @ ( =9. ?Y) ? ; The lifterieut, the agonizing wheel, Luke'* iron crown, and Damicn's bed ttfstetl, To men remote... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 strani
...idlo belief that all of this — or even that much of it — can bo effected by legisla. tion — " How small, of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or Kings can cause or euro ! " Something, indeed, may be done ; and if, when the history of the Session now opening comes... | |
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