 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 ページ
...administered ? The bosom of sensibility heaves a complaining sigh, because " Nor peace, nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe. And, turning, trembles too." Let it seek the true balm for its wounded nerves, the sweet consciousness... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 ページ
...please: Far from the heart 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, 15ul, turning, trembles too. Tar, as distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree: 'Tis bliss... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 414 ページ
...to the pathetic, must be allowed to possess real wit. Nor ease nor peace that heart can know. That like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, • Even Hudibras, which affords Such a profusion of ludicrous wit, contains also some of the serious... | |
 | 1819 - 394 ページ
...heart such gifts remove, That sighs for peace and ease ! Nor easej 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 distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree ; 'Tis bliss but to a certain bound — Beyond... | |
 | Elizabeth Benger - 1813 - 640 ページ
...quotation from Mrs. Greville's Ode to Indifference : " Nor peace, nor eafe, the heart can know, " That, like the needle, true, " Turns at the touch of joy or woe, " But, turning, trembles too." Altamont, mentally alluding to Cordelia, wrote, " Where'er I roam, whatever realms to fee, " My heart,,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 ページ
...And gay as soft, a'ld innocent as gay ! And happy, if aught happy here, as good. Nor ease nor peace, that heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or wo, But, turning, trembles too. O the dark days of vanity ! while here ^ How tasteless, and how terrible... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 ページ
...please : Far from the heart those gifts remove, That sighs for peace and ease. Nor peace nor case the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Far as distress the sonl can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree : Tis bliss but to a certain bound ; Beyond,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 ページ
...heart such gifts remove, That sighs for peace and ease ! 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. Far as distress the soul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree ; 'Tis bliss but to a certain bound — Beyond... | |
 | Rebecca Edridge - 1822 - 758 ページ
...pressed, they could soothe her mind and awukeii emoti».i. that only could arise in the sensitive heart which " — — Like the needle true, Turns at the...touch of joy or woe, •But turning trembles too." Though she was fatigued almost to fainting, Philippine could not sleep : the hurry of her departure,... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 472 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... | |
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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. 
