 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathise with mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss...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,... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1841 - 312 pages
...Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind : Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good, each government...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,... | |
 | Henry Tyrwhitt Jones Macnamara - Peace - 1841 - 376 pages
...in this, as in all cases of distress a more active duty belongs. It has been said by Dr. Johnson, " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure ! " And certain it is that private individuals, by well directed zeal in the cause of good, can frequently... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...faint to go , Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. Vain , very vain , my weary search to find That bliss..., That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consigned , Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course... | |
 | 1842 - 544 pages
...guide their movements is devoid of light? When will they practically understand that great truth — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! " But it will be said that we, so far from acting on our own principles as just laid down, have pressed... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1843 - 550 pages
...to these, and may say what they like on the innumerable other themes of speculation and discourse. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." There is no great hardship in the case apparently, when viewed in this light ; but men go to war about... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1843 - 556 pages
...to these, and may say what they like on the innumerable other themes of speculation and discourse. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." There is no great hardship in the case apparently^ when viewed in this light ; but men go to war about... | |
 | 1844 - 738 pages
...transition ; for, though we do not subseribe without qualification to the sentiment of the poet — How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure — because we believe that governments and their institutions may be made to hear remedially on all... | |
 | Child rearing - 1844 - 332 pages
...1814. FELICITY. VAIH, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind! How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course,... | |
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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. 
