 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 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...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 - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Thotig'i 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 - English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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...can cause or cure, Still to ourselves in every place consigned. Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...request, marked with a pencil the lines which he had furnished, which are only line 42Oth. " To stop too fearful, and too faint to go;" and the concluding...the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italick character: " How small of all that human hearts endure, " That part which kings or laws can... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...request, marked with a pencil the lines which he had furnished, which are only line 420th. " To stop too fearful, and too faint to go;" and the concluding...the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the ItaJick character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, " That part which kings or laws can... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...government bestows ? In ev'rv government, tho' terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws .restrain, nd grown the public shame, The people from (ialesus...name, AndCymoii calld, which signifies a brute ; S ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : I only would repress them to secure : Fnr... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 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...or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in evei'y place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With With secret course, which no loud storms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Book ornamentation - 1817 - 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, • \...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... | |
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How small, of all that human hearts 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, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of... 
