 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.  Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs ... - Página 133por Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 303 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Fawkes - 1763 - 268 páginas
...pleaft ; Far from the heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 páginas
...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 - 614 páginas
...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 - 306 páginas
...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... | |
 | Poems - 1775 - 518 páginas
...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...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 ;... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1781 - 516 páginas
...pleafe ; Far from the heart thofe gifts remove, That figh for peace and eafe ! Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...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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