| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...possession of every thing that constitutes the glory and the perfection of our nature. " In secret streams which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current...lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 pages
...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... | |
| 1833 - 598 pages
..."'flhig* and it was not a little that could disturb the equanimity of my temper' upon such occasions : " Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find." In one of our visits to this river, we penetrated several miles through the woods by a beaten pathway... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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...annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. . FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, ed life ; though only few possess Patrician treas Siill to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find; With secret course,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...; BtiU to ourselves In ever; place comign'd, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret conree, k upon me : you shall have them. [Exit. Miss Ncrille....dislike them of all things. You shan't stir. — Wa Luke1» iron crotón, and Damien'e bed oftteel^ To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason,... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1831 - 762 pages
...in a well-known couplet, which I remember to have been once quoted by the late Lord Liverpool — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." Far am I from agreeing in the opinion which the poet has so well expressed in those lines. They are... | |
| Samuel Bailey - 1831 - 254 pages
...feeble influence on the happiness of private life. He may be ready to exclaim with the poet, " Mow small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure !"* And, extending the remark to moral science, conclude, that beyond the circle of common knowledge... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 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...no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of dqmestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To... | |
| Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 pages
...produce:— " 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 consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides... | |
| |