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" 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. "
Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great Britain and Ireland. Re-publ. from ... - Page 96
by Poems - 1775
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The Poetical Calendar: Containing a Collection of Scarce and ..., Volume 5

Francis Fawkes - English poetry - 1763 - 268 pages
...pleaft ; Far from the heart fuch gifts remove, That fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns...touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. Far as diflrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis pain in each degree ; Blifs goes but to a certain bound ; Beyond...
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The effusions of friendship and fancy, letters [by J. Langhorne].

John Langhorne - 1766 - 188 pages
...of the curiofa fetid t as, than the following ftanza : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A fine A fine imagination and a fenfible heart generally go together, of which nothing can be a ftronger...
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Annual Register, Volume 13

Edmund Burke - History - 1771 - 590 pages
...that heart fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart «an know. That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. For as diilrefs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree; Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond...
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Essays from The Batchelor, in Prose and Verse by the Authors of the Epistle ...

1773 - 306 pages
...heart fuch gifts remove That ftghs for pe^ce and eafe. Nor eafe nor peace the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too, Far Far as diftrefs the foul can wound-, 'Tis pain in each degree : Blifs goes but to a certain bound :...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 48

Books - 1773 - 614 pages
...beautiful image, in Mrs. Greville's ode to Indifference, where (he fays that her heart —..• ' " - like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy, or woe, But, turning, trembles too we find Jn that poem in Cowley's Miftrefs, called, Refthed tf te beloved t The needle trembles fo,...
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The Correspondents, an Original Novel: In a Series of Letters

Correspondents - Epistolary fiction, English - 1775 - 314 pages
...predominate, and verify thefe elegant and often-quoted lines : Nor peace nor eafe the heart can know, Which like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too. But the principal inconveniences of ftrong fenfibility are the abfurdities of conduct it gives rife...
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The New Foundling Hospital for Wit: Being a Collection of Fugitive ..., Volume 6

John Almon - English literature - 1786 - 440 pages
...; Far from that heart fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, qor- peace, that heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, twrning, trembles too. For as diflrefs the foul can wound, Tis plain in each degree, Blifs goes but...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Ecart thofe gifts remove That fighs for peace and cafe : Nor peace nor cafe the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or...trembles too. Far as diftrefs the foul can wound, "Tí s pain in each degree : 'Tis bill's bur to a certain bound ; lïevond is agony. Take then th>s...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 13

History - 1794 - 574 pages
...pleafe; Far from that heart fuch gifts remove, Which fighs for peace and eafe. Nor eafe, nor peace, that heart can know., That, like the needle true, Turns...the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. For as diftrcfs the foul can wound, 'Tis plain in each degree; Blifs goes but to a certain bound, Beyond...
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The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, Volume 2

Aulus Gellius - Civilization, Greco-Roman - 1795 - 398 pages
...defcribed in the Ode to Indifference, by Mrs. Greville : Nor peace, nor eafe, that heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning trembles too. nor nor death; which rule he alfo obferved in all other difputes of a fimilar nature. For he faw indeed...
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