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. The Ashlar ... - Pàgina 234editat per - 1856Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
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...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. BURNS. If I could hope that the perusal of this paper would turn one slanderer from his practice, it... | |
| Robert Burns, Thomas Park - 1808 - 330 pàgines
...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. TAM SAMSON'S1 ELEGY. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. HAS auk) K********* seen... | |
| Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pàgines
...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. TAM SAMSON'S* ELEGY. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. HAS auld K********* seen the Deil?... | |
| William Mudford - 1811 - 278 pàgines
...each chord, its various tone ; Each spring iti 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. BCHNS, If I could hope that it were in my power to turn one slanderer from his practice, it would give... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 pàgines
...chord — its various tone — Each spring — its secret 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." It is scarcely possible to select, from the few pages before ut, ly detached passage, without weakening... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pàgines
...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-~—- ' ' ~~ -— -—- ~^— •:-•... | |
| John Moore - 1816 - 278 pàgines
...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. BURKSMa. Anguish, who had been absent during Mrs. Barnet's visit, returned to his own house after she... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1816 - 52 pàgines
...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." How happened it that the recollection of this affecting passage did not check so 8 amiable a man as... | |
| 1818 - 764 pàgines
...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.' How happened it that the recollection of this affecting passage did not check M awiiablt:... | |
| 1818 - 782 pàgines
...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.' How happened it that the recollection of this affecting passage did not check so amiable a man as Dr... | |
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