 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 ページ
...government bestows? 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 secret course,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 ページ
...government bestows? 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 secret course,... | |
 | 1842 - 544 ページ
...guide their movements is devoid of light? When will they practically understand that great truth — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! " But it will be said that we, so far from acting on our own principles as just laid down, have pressed... | |
 | 1842 - 916 ページ
...misgovernment, or could have been averted by a different policy. On the other hand, we do not literally adopt the exclamation of the poet — " How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws and kings can cause or cure ! " We believe that much may be done for human happiness by good legislation,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1843 - 550 ページ
...to these, 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 men go to war about... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1843 - 556 ページ
...to these, 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 men go to war about... | |
 | 1844 - 738 ページ
...excitement and transition ; 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 on all... | |
 | 1844 - 332 ページ
...1814. 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 secret course,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 ページ
...find a 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 be the result of... | |
 | Richard John Neuhaus - 1986 - 300 ページ
...important 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 because "our own... | |
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How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. 
