 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 Dublin University Magazine - Page 1841853Full view - About this book
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 384 pages
...are endowed like Burns and 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, its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's... | |
 | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 388 pages
...are endowed like Burns and 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, its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1824 - 294 pages
...left the party to pursue their design, while he gave the rein to his own meditations. CHAPTER XIV. " Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows eacb chord — its various tone, Each spring — its various bins." Buna. WE must now leave the party... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...Still gentler sister woman ; Tim' they may gang a kenuin wrang, To step aside is human i Onr point mast still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as fairly can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try... | |
 | 918 pages
...say, in the language of unholy self-gratulation, " Stand by, for I am holier than thou !" " Who sees the heart 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring its various bias." " Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alfred Howard - Poetry - 1826 - 226 pages
...temptation. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human: One point must still...'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone, Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's done we... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...brother man. Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may ganff a kenning wrang ; To stop aside is tinman : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just as namely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. vnr. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Poets, Scottish - 1828 - 324 pages
...more heavily on such a being as Burns than a One point must still be greatly dark, • The moving wAy they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it." man of plain common Sense might guess, — or even a casual expression of discouraging tendency from... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 226 pages
...Though they may gang a kennin wring To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dork, The moving why they do it ; And just as lamely can...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... | |
 | Mary Jane Mackenzie - English fiction - 1829 - 256 pages
...sister' woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside ie human : One point must still he greatly dark, The moving why they do it ; And just...made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; fie knows each chord, its various tone. Each spring, its various hias ; Then at the halance let's... | |
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