| England - 1818 - 764 pages
...they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark How far, perhaps, they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis IK alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord —...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 - 834 pages
...censorship. The gentle 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,... | |
| 1818 - 782 pages
...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 each chord —...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.'... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
..." Though they may gang a kennan 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... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 614 pages
...sister woman, Though they may 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... | |
| John Moore - 1820 - 578 pages
...attentions to him afterwards. i' n. ' '; ••• • 2 s CHAPTER LXXXI. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its...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.... | |
| John Moore, Robert Anderson - English literature - 1820 - 580 pages
...niost winning attentions to him afterwards. TOL. tfi. !» c CHAPTER LXXXL Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its...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.... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 274 pages
...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 each chord —...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.... | |
| J. W. Lake - 1824 - 28 pages
...in the gross, I would say with the bard of nature and of Scotland: — " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord its...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."... | |
| Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 388 pages
...live no better, recollect the doctrine of one of his best stanzas : — " Who made the heart 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord,...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."... | |
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