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" Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why 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... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 69
1818
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Dante: The Paradiso

Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 pages
...they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis lie alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord —...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.." Hunts. CANTO XIV. ARGUMENT. SOLOMON removes Dante's doubts as to the state of glorified...
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The Complete Works Of Robert Burns

1845 - 440 pages
...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 tone, Euch spring — its various hias : Then at the halance let's he mute, We never can adjust it ; What's...
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Thoughts on the Poets

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1846 - 350 pages
...they do it : And just as lamely can ye mark. How far perhaps they rue it. Wha made the heart, 'tis he alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord —...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. Burns had a truly noble soul. He cherished an honest pride. Obligation oppressed him, and...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 7

1850 - 716 pages
...observations on the subject in hand, especially the concluding verse : " Wha made the heart 'tis He alone, Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord,...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." LINES On the little Chapel in Margaret Street being pulled down, to build a new Church on...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1847 - 524 pages
...talents and virtues on the other? In the words of Burns himself: — " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us ; He knows each chord —...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisled." The errors of Burns were visited upon him severely in his day : they stand recorded against...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns: With Explanatory and Glossarial ...

Robert Burns, James Currie - 1847 - 704 pages
...they rue it. * All 0» reu. 1 Both. m AwkwtnL • Л UUIc, > imall milter. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord— its various tone £ach spring — its various bias : Then at the balance let 's be mute, We never can adjust it: What...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 228 pages
...infinitely superior to him in every other quality of a didactic poet. "Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord —...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." The truth set forth in these lines never has been as well expressed. And there is nothing...
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Robert Burns: As a Poet, and as a Man

Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...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,...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted." The truth set forth in these lines never has been as well expressed. And there is nothing...
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Isabel Denison

Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 310 pages
...brother man, Still gentler sister woman ; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human. Then, at the balance, let's be mute, We never can...What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. BURNS. an infant of a few hours old. It seemed about to resign its short life ; to close...
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pages
...woman, Though they may gang a kenuin wrong ; 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." " To gild refined gold, to paint the rose, Or add fresh perfume to the violet ;"* but to debase the...
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