| Leigh Hunt - 1847 - 394 ページ
...with all the sofiness of a gentle truth : — " 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." There is a good deal about Mns. GREVILLE in the Memoirs of Madame D'Arblay. She was married to a man... | |
| George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 526 ページ
...those gifts remove That sighs for peace and ease : Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'T is pain in each degree : T is bliss but to a certain bound ; Beyond,... | |
| 1852 - 782 ページ
...lines in Mrs. Greville's Ode to Indifference : " Nor peace nor ease that heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too." Archbishop Leighton, in his Twelfth Sermon, The Believer a Hero, when speaking of our " rejoicing with... | |
| 1852 - 650 ページ
...lines in Mrs. Greville's Ode to Indifference : " Nor peace nor ease that heart can know Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too." Archbishop Leighton, in his Twelfth Sermon, The Believer a ffero, when speaking of our " rejoicing... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 946 ページ
...those gifts remove That sighs for peace and case : No peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true. Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'Tie pain in each degree; Т is bliss but to a certain bound, Beyond,... | |
| Governess - 1855 - 884 ページ
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 ページ
...sighs for peaee and ease: Nor peace, nor case, the heart can know. That, like the needle true, Tunis at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree • Tis bliss but to a certain bound; Beyond,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...those 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 or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree: Tis bliss but to a certain bound ; Beyond, is... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 ページ
...those 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 or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree • Tis bliss but to a certain bound ; Beyond,... | |
| Miriam Coles Harris - 1860 - 516 ページ
...attendants, never left me, day or night. CHAPTER XXXTV. " Nor peace nor case, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too." GEEyILLE. seem to be taking a new turn," said the captain, meditatively, over his coflee the next morning.... | |
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