 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 ページ
...hearts of oak our men. SJ Arnold, Death of Nelson. MRS. GREVILLE. xy 17—. Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A Prayer for Indifference. HORACE WALPOLE. 1717-1797. Dignity of history.1 Attvcrtiscment to Letters... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1878 - 360 ページ
...voice, All colours a suffusion from that light. — COLERIDGE, Dejection. — Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of JOY or woe, But, turning, trembles too. Joy. — Still from the fount of JOY'S delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling... | |
 | James Wolfendale - 1879 - 762 ページ
...his threats, prepares the best rest for himself in the day of tribulation." " Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too " [ Mr» . Greville]. Vors. 17, 18. Fortitude in affliction. "The power of habit and character," says... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1881 - 90 ページ
...the following passage, and there are many like passages in our poetry : — " Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe But, turning, trembles too." LESSON XIX. A Map. A Map is a plan of any portion of the world. If I were FIRST GEOGRAPHICAL READER.... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - 744 ページ
...groves — O ! a good grove of chimneys for me. CCCC. MBS GEEVILLE. THE HEAET. Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. CCCn. ANONYMOUS DEATH. Hush, idle words and thoughts of ill, Our Lord is listening • peace, be still... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 ページ
...your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Act lii. Sc. 4. MRS. GREVILLE." Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A Prayer for Indifftrtnce, 1 Compare Johnson. Page 318. 2 The pretty Fanny Macartney. — Walpole's... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1883 - 280 ページ
...Mrs. Greville's "Prayer for Indifference" has this :— 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. That delighteth in His commandments. Oh ! this is not only to do them, but to do them with delight... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1883 - 388 ページ
...to every semi-tone of human emotion, who is blessed, or afflicted, with that exquisite sensibility, which, "Like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, trembles too." It is when to the artist's organization is added the power of translating... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1883 - 390 ページ
...to every semi-tone of human emotion, who is blessed, or afflicted, with that exquisite sensibility, which, "Like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And turning, trembles too." It is when to the artist's organization is added the power of translating... | |
 | Alaric Alfred Watts - 1884 - 366 ページ
...' Prayer for Indifference,' quoting the verse — ' Nor ease, nor peace that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, And, turning, — trembles too.' This led to a reference to persons who had written one good poem.... | |
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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. 
