 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 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...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,... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...surpass us in those minor courtesies, which make up so large a part of social enjoyment. • ' v' * x " 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." ^\>0 i-- " "... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant-kings or tyrant-laws restrain, 428 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,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...In every government, though terrors reign. Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small,1 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,... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 436 pages
...which he draws at the end of the poem would be perfectly just, if these premises were allowed him. In every government though terrors reign, Though tyrant...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,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - Philosophy - 1846 - 584 pages
...degree, as Goldsmith says, consigned to ourselves, amidst all the varieties of social institutions. In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 268 pages
...bright reflection of a tear. — GD Prentice. In every government, though terrors reign, Though cruel kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that...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.— Goldsmith. Thee the... | |
 | Robert F. Gleckner - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 356 pages
...had written a concluding passage for Goldsmith's The Traveller which summed up prevailing opinion : 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. But now it seemed... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...find a couplet that rings with the force of a proverb, we learn that it was inserted by Dr. Johnson: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Goldsmith lacks wit, and his use of abstractions and generalization; often seems to be the result of... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - Religion - 1986 - 300 pages
...important truths about politics is the truth about the limits of politics. As Doctor Johnson put it: 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. Just because "our own... | |
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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. 
