 | Francis Fawkes - 1763 - 268 ページ
...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...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
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1771 - 590 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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,... | |
 | Correspondents - 1775 - 314 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Almon - 1786 - 440 ページ
...; Far from that heart fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, qor- peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, twrning, trembles too. For as diflrefs the foul can wound, Tis plain in each degree, Blifs goes but... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 ページ
...Ecart thofe gifts remove That fighs for peace and cafe : Nor peace nor cafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or...trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, "Tí s pain in each degree : 'Tis bill's bur to a certain bound ; lïevond is agony. Take then th>s... | |
 | 1794 - 574 ページ
...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, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. For as diftrcfs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree; Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond... | |
 | Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 398 ページ
...defcribed in the Ode to Indifference, by Mrs. Greville : Nor peace, nor eafe, that heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. nor nor death; which rule he alfo obferved in all other difputes of a fimilar nature. For he faw indeed... | |
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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. 
