| John Aikin - 1821 - 314 Seiten
...mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrours reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of... | |
| 1822 - 472 Seiten
...them all — such is our business ! — and we well know its magnitude and importance : we well know, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure. We are aware, too, how much there is in looking steadfastly into society, to make the heart sick and... | |
| 1822 - 734 Seiten
...premises were allowed him. In every government though terror» reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant taws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which law» or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consign'«], Oar own ftKcity we... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 Seiten
...ways; Vain, very vain my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows 1 In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...very vain, my weary search to find That bliss w'hich only centres in the mind : Why have I strayed from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government...that human hearts endure, That part which laws or Icings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or... | |
| André Vieusseux - 1824 - 368 Seiten
...government, though terror reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small of that which human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. These lines are thus rendered : Sot to qualunque reggimento uom viva Benche regni il terror, benchd... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...whieh only eentres in the mind ; Why have I stray'd, from pleasure and repose, To seek a good eaeh government bestows '; In every government, though...tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all mat human hearts endure, That part whieh laws or kings ean eause or eure ! Still to ourselves in every... | |
| Sermons - 1825 - 406 Seiten
...whose sentiment it may not be improper to cite here, hath truly said, The Duties of the Divine Law. "How small, of all that human hearts endure, " That part, which laws or kings can cause or cure ?" These indeed are truths so plain and known that I need not dwell upon them, if unhappily there had... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 Seiten
...mine. Vain, very vain, my weary search to find, That bliss which only centres in the mind ! Why have I stray'd from pleasure and repose, To seek a good each government bestows ? In ev'ry government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings or tyrant laws restrain, - How small, of... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 Seiten
...idlo belief that all of this — or even that much of it — can bo effected by legisla. tion — " How small, of all that human hearts endure That part which laws or Kings can cause or euro ! " Something, indeed, may be done ; and if, when the history of the Session now opening comes... | |
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