Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows... The English Poets - Page xliiiedited by - 1901Full view - About this book
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...lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis HE alone Decidedly can try us: He knows each chord, its various tone ; Each spring,...: Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adj ust it : What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. BURNS. If I could hope... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pages
...lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resizted. TAM SAMSON'S1 ELEGY. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. HAS auk) K********* seen... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VIII. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring...partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. TAM SAMSON'S* ELEGY. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. HAS auld K********* seen the Deil?... | |
| William Mudford - 1811 - 278 pages
...heart ? "Vis HK alone, Decidedly can try us, HE knows each chord, its various tone ; Each spring iti various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute,...partly may compute., But know not what's resisted. BCHNS, If I could hope that it were in my power to turn one slanderer from his practice, it would give... | |
| 1812 - 140 pages
...can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring...the balance let's be mute ; We never can adjust it ; AVhat's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.'' XHE poems on Tarn Samson are... | |
| Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...us, He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various hias : Then at the halance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done...partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. TAM SAMSON'S* ELEGY. An hottest man', the noblest work of God. POPE. HASauld K******** seen the Deil... | |
| John Moore - 1816 - 278 pages
...attentions to him after-- wards. CHAPTER VI. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring...partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. BURKSMa. Anguish, who had been absent during Mrs. Barnet's visit, returned to his own house after she... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1816 - 52 pages
...can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring,...partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." How happened it that the recollection of this affecting passage did not check so 8 amiable a man as... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 pages
...mark Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone — Each spring — its secret bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never...partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." It is scarcely possible to select, from the few pages before ut, ly detached passage, without weakening... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...of Burns : we would prefix as a motto hia well known lines : " Then at the balance let's be rautej We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." -,---- - .^~-~^~~-~-..~-^- -—---——--— .~~~-,~ — -. ~T-~—- ' ' ~~ -— -—- ~^— •:-•... | |
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