 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
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human ; One point must still he greatly dark, The moving « hy they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VIII. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone) Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various... | |
 | A. C. L. D'Arblay (M.A., F.C.P.S.) - 1836 - 566 pages
...multitude insulted Him in a certain village, and the disciples would have called down Jire from heaven 1 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 he mute, We never can adjust it; What's... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...B'ISRAELI. — GENTLY scan your brother man. Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' 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, Each spring—its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never... | |
 | Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...instance, the momentous truth of the passage— " One point must still be greatly dark, The inovipg why they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark, How fur perhaps they rue it. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentlier sister woman — Though... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...temptation. vn. 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...as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. VIII. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 650 pages
...: " 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...lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it." The writer of the American preface expresses his regret that he has not been able to procure any information... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin o.) How loud the hum of this VIII. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord — its various tone... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...VII. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin ; maik, How far perhaps they rue it vm. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...chap. vi. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human ; One point must still...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - Poets, Scottish - 1840 - 368 pages
...Then gently scan your brother man. Still gentler sister woman ; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrung, To step aside is human ; One point must still be greatly...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... | |
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