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" 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 agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known,... "
The General chronicle and literary magazine - Page 474
1811
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Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Lnke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...in the mind : Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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 power but...
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The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With the Portrait of the Author

Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
...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...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 power...
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The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, Volumes 4-5

Child rearing - 1844 - 332 pages
...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,...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 power but...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...centres in the mind: Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows? In every government, though terrors reign, Though...Glides the 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...
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The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

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...domestic joy ; The lifted ax, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel — To men remote from power but rarely known — Leave...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind, Volume 3

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...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 power but...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...by the Italic character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, tlie agonizing wlieel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power,...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consigu'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Lake's iron crown, and Damien'i bed of steel, To men remote from power, but...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Including a Variety ..., Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...stop too fearful, and too faint to go;' 40 THE TRAVELLER. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown,* and Damien's bed of steel,f To men remote from power...
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