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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the ... - Page 313
by James Boswell - 1888
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...make or find ; With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of dqmestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron...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...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the ...

James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...laws can cause or care. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find; With secret course which no loud storms annoy, Glides...wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, ing formerly mude too frequent use of this fascinating palliative. — ED.] 1 It is remarkable that...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...laws can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find; ht to be exercised without the concurrence of the...judicatures: a presbytery, a synod, and, finally, a g Damien'g bed of steel, ing formerly, made too frequent use of this fascinating palliative. — ED.]...
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The Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1836 - 150 pages
...which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel,...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...
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The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, with an account of ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...make or find: With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron...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...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 1

1837 - 646 pages
...make or find ; With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own." An anecdote connected with the preparation of this poem has been preserved, and is interesting, not...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Poems. Dramas. Criticism ...

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,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 161

English essays - 1837 - 728 pages
...Glides the 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...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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 161-162

Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...make or find ; With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron...and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power hut rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own. The fact however is, as we think...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

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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