 | William Blair - 1884 - 270 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, Hut, turning, trembles too. That delighteth in His commandments. Oh ! this is not only to do them,... | |
 | Caroline Emily Cameron - 1885 - 256 ページ
...195 XII.—THREE MONTHS AFTEII . . ... 213 Chapter the Jji A VAIN APPEAL. " Nor peace, nor ease the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns...touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too." MRS. GrREVILLE. IN A GRASS COUNTRY, CHAPTER I. A VAIN APPEAL. " Nor peace, nor ease the heart can know,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 428 ページ
...fall under the condition deprecated in the beautiful Ode to Indifference : " Nor peace, nor joy, the heart can know, Which, like the needle, true, Turns...touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too." The pain which in one case is inflicted by an undue degree of bodily sensitiveness, is in the other... | |
 | William Fraser Rae - 1888 - 316 ページ
...London daily journal is a true king of men.' CHAPTEE XXII. MISS SOLAR'S RETURN. ' No peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns...touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too.' MRS. GrREVILLE. HOUGH a few weeks only had passed away since Mrs. Argoll parted from Miss Solar, yet... | |
 | 1888 - 228 ページ
...little day, And we '11 enjoy her loveliness, as twilight sinks away. Ann Taylor. NOR peace nor ease the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns...the touch of Joy or Woe, But, turning trembles too. Mrs. Greville. THE MESSENGER BIRD. '"PHOU art come from the spirits' land, thou bird ! Thou art come... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1889 - 406 ページ
...those gifts remove, That sighs for peace and ease I 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 592 ページ
...epigram with all the softness of a gentle truth :— 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. There is a good deal about Mrs. Greville in tho " Memoirs of Madame D'Arblay." She was married to a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 588 ページ
...epigram with all the softness of a gentle truth : — 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. Thero is a good deal about Mrs. Greville in the " Memoira of Madame D'Arblay." She was married to a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1889 - 590 ページ
...with all the softness of a gentle truth : — Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like tho needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. There is a good deal about Mrs. Greville in tho " Memoira of Madame D'Arblay." She was married to a... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 ページ
...far o'er sea or land we roam ?— Moore. No peace nor ease the heart can know Which, like the needje true. Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. — Mrs. Greville, Truth crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But... | |
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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. 
