 | 496 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, its various bias : 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.... | |
 | Robert Burns, Thomas Park - Bookbinding - 1808 - 326 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 — its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resizted.... | |
 | 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 its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.... | |
 | 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 its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute ; We never can adjust it ; AVhat's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.''... | |
 | John Moore - Fiction by physicians - 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 its various bias ; Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.... | |
 | 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, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; . What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted."... | |
 | England - 1818 - 770 pages
...can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis IK alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone, Each spring, its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's routed.'... | |
 | Scotland - 1860 - 830 pages
...philosophy of Bums teaches us the truest charity. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord — its various tone ; Each spring — its various bias. * LORD HOLLAND'S Foreign Reminiirevcet. t Memoirt of the Whig Party, vol. ii. p. 30; Ross's Diary,... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 614 pages
...gang a kennan wrang; To step aside is human. Who made the lieart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring its various bias.' " It is still more surprising, that a critic, capable of so eloquently developing the traits of Burns's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...wrang ; " To step aside is human. •* Who made the heart, 'tis he alone " Decidedly can try us ; " He knows each chord, its various tone, " Each spring its various bias." It is still more surprising, that a critic, capable of so eloquently developing the traits of Burns's... | |
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tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. 
