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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... "
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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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Glides the smooth eurrent of domestie joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron erown, eonseienee, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. l 769. SWEET Auburn ! loveliest village of the plain....
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ..., Volume 6

English poetry - 1826 - 300 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...crown,* and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from pow'r but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. Goldsmith. * In the Respublica...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 432 pages
...can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place corisign'd, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides...smooth current of domestick joy : The lifted axe, the agonising wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 1

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 pages
...smart and agonize at every pore ? Pope's Essay on Man. The lifted axe, the agonifing wheel, Lake's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel To men remote...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. Ooldmith. I see before me the gladiator lie ; He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Coastals to...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...current of domestic joy : — The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own." The observations already made are I hope sufficient to obviate some of the strongest prejudices which...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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 DESERTED VILLAGE. TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. DEAR SIR, I CAN have no expectations, in an address of...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1830 - 544 pages
...make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic no uneasiness," cried I, " about selling the rims, fo THE DESERTED VILLAGE; A POEM. TO DR. GOLDSMITH, AUTHOR OP THE DESERTED VILLAGE, BY MISS AIKIN, AFTERWARDS...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Dam^en's The deadly winter seizes, shuts t days is a true English village, while in its decay it is an Irish village. 'The felicity arid the miseiy...
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Letters for the press

Francis Roscommon (pseud.) - 1832 - 300 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." That all our happiness does not depend on governments, is too plain to be insisted upon; but that the...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 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. * In this circle was numbered Edmund Burke, who V . was at once a scholar and a parliamentary afator...
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