 | 1828 - 454 Seiten
...which has the point of epigram with all the softness of a gentle truth. " Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too." The pause in this last line is very exquisite. We are sorry -we have not our books near us ; or we... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1832 - 384 Seiten
...natural curiFar from the heart such gifts remove That sighs for peace and ease ! Nor peace nor ease the heart can know That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy and woe — But, turning — trembles too ! osity, which attaches itself to the sight of any object... | |
 | Ellen Pickering - 1834 - 256 Seiten
...Since you have quoted one poet, let me quote another ' Nor peace nor ease the mind can know, Which like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe. But turning trembles too.' " " And you are positively sincere in desiring this dull ease." " Peaceful calm ! if you please." "... | |
 | 1836 - 574 Seiten
...little piece that I often 'oinfc on, with a different application indeed : " Nor peace nor case the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, trembles too." The property of the magnetic needle being to P°int due north, whatever... | |
 | 1841 - 600 Seiten
...called upon to repeat to you those touching lines — ' Nor peace nor ease the heart shall know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, trembles too !' Tell me, my too sensitive friend, what new sorrow is it that now dims... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - 1842 - 330 Seiten
...called upon to repeat to you those touching lines — ' Nor peace nor ease the heart shall know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, trembles too !' Tell me, my too sensitive friend, what new sorrow is it that now dims... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth - 1845 - 524 Seiten
...little piece that I often think on, with a different application indeed : " Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, treiublea too." The property of the magnetic needle being to point due north, whatever... | |
 | Mrs Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 344 Seiten
...always either mourning the departed, or aching with fear and anxiety for the living. The sense that turns at the touch of joy or woe, but, turning, trembles too, is like a pendulum in constant motion with us meritorious matrons. My partiality for the single state... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 Seiten
...imagination was attuned to his own feelings, and called up in him a response to the complaint. Nor ease nor peace that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or wo, But turning trembles too. And a desire to join in that prayer that the senses may be steeped in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...has the point of an epigram with all the softness of a gentle truth : — " Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too." There is a good deal about MRS. GREVILLE in the Memoirs of Madame D'Arblay. She was married to a man... | |
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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. 
