 | 1763 - 552 Seiten
...no kind return in love, No tempting charm to pleafe ; Far from that heart fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know, ~ That like the needle true, Tarns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. * For as diftrefs the foul can wound,... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 Seiten
...of the curiofa fetid t as, than the following ftanza : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at 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 Seiten
...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 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 ; Beyond... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 Seiten
...that heart 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 Seiten
...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 at 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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: Beyond is... | |
 | Poems - 1775 - 518 Seiten
...pleafe ; Far from the heart thofe gifts remove, That figh for peace and eafej! Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...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 ; Beyond,... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 Seiten
...predominate, and verify thefe elegant and often-quoted lines : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns at 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... | |
 | 1780 - 226 Seiten
...heart thofe gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, 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; Take then... | |
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Nor ease, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe; But, turning, trembles too. 
