 | Francis Fawkes - 1763 - 268 ページ
...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 ; Beyond... | |
 | John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,...diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond is agony. Take then this treacherous fenfe of mine, Which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Poems - 1775 - 518 ページ
...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,...diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond, is agony. Then take this treach'rous fenfe of mine, Which... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,...diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree: 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound; Take then this treacherous fenfe of mine, Which dooms me ftill to... | |
 | 1781 - 516 ページ
...gifts remove, That figh for peace and eafe ! Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe ; But,...diftrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : 'Tis blifs but to a certain bound ; Beyond, is agony. Then take this treach'rous fenfe of mine, Which... | |
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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. 
