| Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 страница
...In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant 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 consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find: With... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1843 - 550 страница
...and may say what they like on the innumerable other themes of speculation and discourse. " How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure." There is no great hardship in the case apparently, when viewed in this light ; but... | |
| 1844 - 738 страница
...; for, though we do not subseribe without qualification to the sentiment of the poet — How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure — because we believe that governments and their institutions may be made to hear remedially... | |
| 1844 - 332 страница
...FELICITY. VAIH, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind! How small, of all that human hearts 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... | |
| William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 страница
...those minor courtesies, which make up so large a part of social enjoyment. • ' v' * x " How small, of all that human hearts 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."... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 страница
...In every government, though terrors reign. Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small,1 of all that human hearts 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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 страница
...In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant 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 consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страница
...couplet that rings with the force of a proverb, we learn that it was inserted by Dr. Johnson: How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Goldsmith lacks wit, and his use of abstractions and generalization; often seems to... | |
| Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 страница
...truths about politics is the truth about the limits of politics. As Doctor Johnson put it: 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. Just... | |
| Denis Mack Smith - 1989 - 436 страница
...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... | |
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