 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1837 - 538 pages
...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown,(i) and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. time.' In the year l783, he, at my request, marked with a pencil the lines which he had furnished,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...or cure ; Htifl to ourselves in every place conslgn'd, Our own felicity we make or find; With eecrei ng sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's...breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's ro tfheel, Luke's iron craan, and Damien't bed oflteel,' To men remote from power bm rarely known, Leare... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 534 pages
...Goldsmith mentions as the period of his decease. " VOL. IV,— THE TRAVELLER. Page 30, line 15.— After, " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel," add the following note — Robert- Francois Damiens, the assassin who attempted the life of Lewis XV.... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 pages
...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 domestic joy ; * * * * * To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1837 - 604 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 ; ***** To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own."... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 600 pages
...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 domestic joy ; » • * * • To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 564 pages
...illustration introduced by the author himself in the two lines which precede the concluding couplet — "The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel." One of which allusions, that to the " Iron Crown," occasioned some difficulty to readers, until it... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1837 - 606 pages
...illustration introduced by the author himself in the two lines which precede the concluding couplet — " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel." headed by two brothers named Zack, George and Luke, the former, not the latter, was punished on its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 126 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, 435 Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE DEDICATION To SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. DEAR SIR, — I can have no expectation, in... | |
 | 1910 - 542 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...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely... | |
| |
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... 
