 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Oamien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE; A POEM. TO DR. GOLDSMITH, iOTHOR OP THE DE*ERTED TILLAGE, BY MI** AIK1N, AFTERWARD*... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 434 pages
...make or find : With secret course, which no loud streams 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. That it matters little or nothing to the happiness of men whether they are governed well or ill, whether... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - Philosophy - 1846 - 584 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...known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own. l " So far," says Cicero, " is virtue from depending on the enactment of kings, that it is as ancient... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 436 pages
...secret course, which no loud streams annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted aie, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. That it matters little or nothing to the happiness of men whether they are governed well or ill, whether... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...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...joy: The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron frown, and Damirn'» bed of steel, ing formerly made too frequent use of this fascinating palliative.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pages
...of domestic joy, Tlie lifted axe, the agonizing mheeL, Luke's iron crotón, and Лагшеп'з led that the company should sit indiscriminately, every...gentleman by his lady. This was received with great Johnson added " these arc aU of which 1 can be sure." They bear indeed but a very trifling proportion... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 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. FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE.* Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...make or find ; With secret course which no loud storms aanoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. 164 GOLDSMITH FROM "THE DESERTED VILLAGE." Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's iron crown, and Damiens'* bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. * George and Luke Zcck headed an insurrection in Hungary, 1514, George usurped the sovereignty and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's iron crown, and Damiens'* bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. * George and Luke Zeck headed an insurrection in Hungary, 1514, (ieorge usurped the sovereignty and... | |
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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 or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of... 
