 | 494 pages
...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 pages
...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. TAM SAMSON'S1 ELEGY. An honest man's the noblest work of God. POPE. HAS auk) K********* seen... | |
 | William Mudford - 1811 - 278 pages
...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 it...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1811 - 500 pages
...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;...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?... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1814 - 306 pages
...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 pages
...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 it;...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...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-~—- ' ' ~~ -— -—- ~^— •:-•... | |
 | 1818 - 764 pages
...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.' How happened it that the recollection of this affecting passage did not check M awiiablt:... | |
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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. 
