 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.  Every Saturday - Σελίδα 2771873Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
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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 σελίδες
...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...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 σελίδες
...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...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 σελίδες
...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, We never can adjust...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 σελίδες
...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.'' XHE poems on Tarn Samson are... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1816 - 574 σελίδες
...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 can adjust...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1816 - 52 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | John Moore - 1816 - 278 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 σελίδες
...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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