 | 1806 - 854 pages
...without name or description, which, like swarms of locusts, devour up all the verdure of his condition. ' How small of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure.1 In a word, man is troubled with a corrupt heart, and a guilty conscience, the greatest of all... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 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...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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...stray 'd from pleasure and n-\Kwc, To seek a good each government bestows ? In ev'rv government, tho' lo tlie green-wood shade h« took . Still to ourselves in ev'ry place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : I only would repress... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...and repose, To seek a good each goverument bestows-? In every goverument, tho' terrors reign, Tho' tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of...human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can canse or core. Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...each government bestows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrants 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 consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 102 pages
...in the mind : Why have I ftray'd from pleafure and repofe, To feek a good each government beftows ? In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws reftrain, How fmall of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can caufe or cure!... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...seek a good each government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrours reign, Thoush tyrant kingi or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human...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 : Vith secret course,... | |
 | 1811 - 710 pages
...when they patiently submit to those laws which are best adapted to the actual condition of the state : In every government, though terrors reign, Though...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,... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1811 - 512 pages
...but points the sword, in turn, at every bosom. " In each strong government tho' terrors reign, Tho' tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small,...endure, That part which laws or kings can cause, or cure I" But all is misery, terror, and dismay in countries which are bloody theatres either of civil or... | |
 | Poetical selections - 1811 - 324 pages
...and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In every government, tho' terrors reign, Tho' tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of...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,... | |
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How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. 
