 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, ' Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, ^ To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. * In this circle was numbered Edmund Burke, who V . was at once a scholar and a parliamentary afator... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 pages
...smooth current of dqmestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. In this circle was numbered Edmund Burke, who was at once a scholar and a parliamentary orator of a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...observation and feelings of its nuthor. —ED.] To men remote from power, but rarely known, ,i':ui' reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." He added, " These are all of which I can >e sure." They bear a small proportion to the whole, which consists of four hundred and thirty-eight... | |
 | 1833 - 372 pages
...domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown and Damien's bed of steel, To those remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own." We cannot refrain from subjoining the following well-merited compliment to Burke— a statesman, undoubtedly,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...in a peculiar degree, seems written from the personal observation and feelings of its author. -ED.] To men remote from power, but rarely known, Leave...verses. Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted 4, mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 150 pages
...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...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. FIRST PRINTED IH MDCCLXIX. H1R JOSHUA REYNOLDS. DEAR SIR, I CAN have no expectations... | |
 | 1837 - 728 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, find Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own. The fact however is, as we think Gibbon somewhere observes, that the obscure millions of an empire... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. •* • THE J DESERTED VILLAGE; A POEM. FIRST PRINTED IN MDCCLXIX. TO DR GOLDSMITH, AU 1'HOR OF THE... | |
 | 1837 - 646 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power, but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." An anecdote connected with the preparation of this poem has been preserved, and is interesting, not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bod of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known,...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE; A POEM. TO DR. GOLDSMITH, AUTHOR OP THE DESERTED VILLAGE, BY MISS AIKIN, AFTERWARDS... | |
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... endure, That part which laws or kings 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 the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the... 
