 | K. L. Armstrong - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 460 pages
...Shakespeare* MY. strange, but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction. — Byron. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we -make or find. — Goldsmith. Shall man alone, for whom all else revives. No resurrection know?— Young. To gild... | |
 | India - 1902 - 196 pages
...conduct." * " 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." India suffers far more from her own injurious customs than from supposed British misgovernment. Sir... | |
 | Shobal Vail Clevenger - Human beings - 1902 - 632 pages
...disappointing, the foundation of his happiness is destroyed. Goldsmith adds his opinion in the lines : "Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or find." Stobaeus, in his exposition of the Peripatetic philosophy, says that happiness means vigorous and successful... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Political ethics - 1902 - 256 pages
...for " 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." 1 On the other hand, those who see clearly the 1 These often-quoted lines are in Goldsmith's Traveller,... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Goldsmith, How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can canse 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 the smooth current of domestic joy. Lines added... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1890 - 450 pages
...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 consigned, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1902 - 296 pages
...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 consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. — Goldsmith. 15. THE MERMAID OF PADSTOW. It is long Tom Yeo of the town of Padstow, And he is a ne'er-do-weel.... | |
 | William Salter - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 196 pages
...good-natured man. 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. Oliver Goldsmith, died April, 1774, aged 46. I love to go in the capricious days Of April and hunt... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 520 pages
...faint to go, Casts a long look where England's glories shine, And bids his bosom sympathize with mine. Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted... | |
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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, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of... 
