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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces - Page 18
edited by - 1821 - 807 pages
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The Original, Volume 1

Thomas Walker - 1835 - 464 pages
...become its own master, and as much as possible independent of every thing without. Goldsmith says, • " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part,...place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find." Shakspeare observes, " there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so;" and Milton expresses...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 61

1838 - 574 pages
...up, but for the natural follies and vices of mankind ; and we agree with the philosophic poet — ' How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! ' This — as it regards manners and social and political relations — is peculiarly true of the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 61

1838 - 728 pages
...but for the natural follies and vices of mankind ; and we agree with the philosophic poet*— 'How ' How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! ' This — as it regards manners and social and political relations — is peculiarly true of the...
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Quarterly Review, Volume 61

1838 - 574 pages
...up, but for the natural follies and vices of mankind ; and we agree with the philosophic poet — ' How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings cau cause or cure ! ' This — as it regards manners and social and political relations — is peculiarly...
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Poems and Essays

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 pages
...from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain,...can cause or cure. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides...
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The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick, of Slickville ; to ...

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1839 - 838 pages
...European states, " Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows'/ How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! " Let us keep out of the vortex of political excitement, learn how to value the blessings we enjoy,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and ...

Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 550 pages
...the concluding ten lines, except the last couplet but one, printed in italic. How small of all Ihat , Cowperthwait & Co. ; Siill to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find ; With secret course,...
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Around the World: A Narrative of a Voyage in the East India ..., Volume 1

1840 - 350 pages
...instead of three, we could sleep in, every third night then, as the lieutenants do," CHAPTER XVIII. "Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find:" * • * » * • * "Where are we driven? our reckoning sure \» lost! This eeums a rocky and a dangerous...
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The Letter-bag of the Great Western: Or, Life in a Steamer

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1840 - 110 pages
...European states, " Why hare I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ! How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws and kings can cause or cure !" Let us keep out of the vortex of political excitement, learn how to...
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Italy and Its Monarchy

Denis Mack Smith - 1989 - 436 pages
...that the truths about national history are very much more than those that involve its head of state. How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. Only a small part it may be, but decisions of peace and war can change the lives of everyone, and some...
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