 | Early English newspapers - 1788 - 694 pages
...GREAT-A, LiTTLE-a,b. Mr. URBAN, July i. NEAR the concludon of Golduniih's Traveller are thcfe lines: " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed fteel." To what piece of hiftorydoes Luke't irou rrfWB allude ; and in what author may it be found... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 202 pages
...kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place...lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien'sbed of steel. To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 416 pages
...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,...lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien'sbed of steel. To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience,... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 396 pages
...kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place...felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no Iou4 storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 pages
...or find ; " With fecret courfe, which no loud ftorms annoy, " Glides the fmooth current of domeftick joy. " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, " Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of fteel t " To men remote from power, but rarely known, u Leave reafon, faith, and confcience, all our... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - 124 pages
...make or find; With fecret courfe, which no loud ftorms annoy, Glides the fmooth current of domeftic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of fteel, To men remote from pow'r but rarely known, Leave reafon, faith, and confcience, all our own.... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1795 - 630 pages
...indecency the religion of the country in which he lives. He who avoid* perjccuticn is feUcm frrftottei. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of fteel, [known, To men remote from power but rarelv Leave reaf m, f.iith, and confcienco, all otir own.... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 752 pages
...told in the lOih volume. Among the criiicifms upon Goldfmith is the following, copied from Bufwell*; " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of fteel. " Luke, in the laft line, is mentioned by rniflake for George. In the Republics (RtffublkaJ... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1800 - 192 pages
...human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves, in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find...crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from pow'r but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own. THE DESERTED VILLAGE. I'IRST... | |
 | William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 414 pages
...indecency, the religion of the country in which he liVes. He who avoids perfecution, is feldom perfecuted. " The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, " Luke's iron crown and Damien's bed of fteel, " To men remote from pow'r but rarely known, " Leave reafon, faith, and conffience all our own."... | |
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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... 
