| John Bell - 1789 - 202 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Thougli tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pages
...government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part...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 loud storms... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...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... | |
| 1844 - 574 pages
...forcts. There is nothing at all resembling this in Madame Halm-Halm. Her motto rather seems to be: ' How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.' She feels as keenly as any man or woman of genius that ever lived, the frequent injustice of opinion... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part,...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pages
...government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part...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 loud storms... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...government bestows ? In every government, tho' terrors reign, Tho' tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...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 men remote from... | |
| Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 pages
...without name or description, which, like swarms of locusts, devour up all the verdure of his condition. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure." In a word, man is troubled with a corrupt heart, and a guilty conscience, the greatest of all evils,... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...That part which kings or laws can cause or cure. " Still to ourselves in every place consign 'd, " Our own felicity we make or find ; " With secret course,...loud storms annoy, " Glides the smooth current of domestick joy : " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, u Lukes iron crown, and Damiens bed of steel,... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...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... | |
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