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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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The poetical and prose works of Oliver Goldsmith, with life

Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 pages
...which laws or kings can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felieity we make or find-: With secret course, which no loud...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axc, the agonizing whcel, Luke's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of stcel, To men remote from power but...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 950 pages
...concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italic character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...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 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 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, Hie agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien,s bed of steel, To men remote from power, but...
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The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith - Bookbinding - 1860 - 196 pages
...or king* im cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign 'd, Our own felicity we m;ikr or find : With secret course, which no loud storms...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy ; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel,* To men remote from power but...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or 6nd : axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damiens bed of steel, To men remote from power, but...
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Poems, Plays and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1861 - 570 pages
...England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. 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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Red-letter Poems by English Men and Women

Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...or cure ! Still to ourselves in even- place consign'd. Our own felicity we make or find. With sicret 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...
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Elzevir Classics: Being Choice Selections Reprinted from the Elzevir Library ...

1887 - 410 pages
...restrain. How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws 01 kings can cause or card Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy; The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Zeck's iron crown, and Damiens' bed of steel, To men remote from power but...
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal ..., Volume 3

Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Literature - 1888 - 420 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,2 and Damiens' bed (if steel, To men remote from power...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - 1889 - 504 pages
...concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, which I distinguish by the Italic character : " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part...Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Lukes iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but...
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