 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consignM, Our own felicity we make or find: With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides...domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's i iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith,... | |
 | 1822 - 578 pages
...every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud streams annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy....lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien'sbed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leay£ reason, faith, and conscience,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1822 - 594 pages
...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. Tin- littrd axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke-s iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from... | |
 | 1813 - 998 pages
...well observed, Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we mnke or find : v With secret course which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. These poor men we should consider as our clients ; and" in us they ought to find patrons ever disposed... | |
 | 1822 - 734 pages
...joy, The lifted att, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of stee> , ' .' ."u ' TI men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our, „.,., «"»• ; That it matters little or nothing to the happiness of men whether they are governed... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 472 pages
...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 domestick joy : " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, " Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel,... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 514 pages
...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...Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own." • " So far," says Cicero, " is virtue from depending on the enactment of kings, that it is as ancient... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, jlides gs feel the leaden death ; Oft, as the mounting larks...shade, Where cooling vapours breathe * bright-e THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 1789. Sweet Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 ax, the ago'nizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...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...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. ' Goldsmith in this couplet mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial i Johnson added,... | |
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In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make... 
