 | 1771 - 882 pàgines
...pleafe, Far from the, heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and cafe. Kor eafe, nor peace, the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy, or woei But turning trembles too. Toe a diArefs the foul can wound, Tii pain in each degree, P.lii's pes... | |
 | Francis Fawkes - 1763 - 268 pàgines
...heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. Far as diflrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree ; Blifs goes but to a certain bound ;... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 pàgines
...a more ftrilcing inftance of the curiofa fetid t as, than the following ftanza : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A fine A fine imagination and a fenfible heart generally go together, of which nothing can be a ftronger... | |
 | Moses Mendez - 1770 - 334 pàgines
...: Far from the heart thofe gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. F 4 Nor Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 pàgines
...fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart «an know. That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. For as diilrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree; Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond... | |
 | 1773 - 306 pàgines
...to pleafe : Far from the heart fuch gifts remove That ftghs for pe^ce and eafe. Nor eafe nor peace the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too, Far Far as diftrefs the foul can wound-, 'Tis pain in each degree : Blifs goes but to a certain bound... | |
 | 1773 - 614 pàgines
...beautiful image, in Mrs. Greville's ode to Indifference, where (he fays that her heart —..• ' " - like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy, or woe, But, turning, trembles too we find Jn that poem in Cowley's Miftrefs, called, Refthed tf te beloved t The needle trembles fo,... | |
 | 1773 - 380 pàgines
...remove That fighs for peace and cafe. • . Nor eafe nor peace the heart can know> Which, like ihe needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But; turning, trembles too. * Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : Blifs goes but to a certain bound:... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 pàgines
...latter too generally predominate, and verify thefe elegant and often-quoted lines : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. But the principal inconveniences of ftrong fenfibility are the abfurdities of conduct it gives rife... | |
 | Poems - 1775 - 518 pàgines
...heart thofe gifts remove, That figh for peace and eafej! Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe ; But, turning, trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ;... | |
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Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. 
