 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...smooth current of domestic Ioy, The lißed axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron сroит, and Damien's bed of steel,' To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, alt our own. Johnson added " these are all of which l can be sure." They bear indeed but a very trifling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...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 power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. EDWIN AND ANGELINA. A BALLAD. "DEIGN saint-like tenant of the dale, To guide my nightly way, To yonder... | |
 | 1844 - 332 pages
...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 power but rarely...Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. GOLDSMITH. [Written for the Young Lady's Friend.] THE HEART-BROKEN. IN the town of S., on the banks... | |
 | 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*... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...by Dr. Johnson. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown,1 and Damien's bed of steel,2 To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. PICTURE OF A VILLAGE LIFE.3 SWEET Auburn !4 loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pages
...seems written from the personal observation and feelings of its author. To men remote from power, hot rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience,...verses. Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted 4, mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly;... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 pages
...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 power but rarely...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 - 1846 - 584 pages
...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 power but rarely...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Lake's iron crown, and Damien'i e mildness o inserted8, mentions Luke as a person well known, and superficial readers have passed it over quite... | |
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... 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 domestic joy. The lifted axe, the... 
