 Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which if He please God in a moment executes with ease)...  Poems - Page 183by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd (a task which, if he please, God in a moment executes...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care,... | |
 | 1837 - 628 pages
...as heads that never acbe suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright;...screws reversed,- — a task which, if he please, God ¡D a moment executes with ease, 532 The Nature of Future Punishment. -Ten thousand thousand strings... | |
 | Baptists - 1837 - 624 pages
...о moment executes with ease. 53-2 The Nature of Future Punishment. Ten thousand thousand strings ut once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. — No grounds like those a wounded spirit feels, Xo cure for such, till God, who makes them, heals."... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...brook, are past away. — Retirement. And the next is still more affecting : Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power of use. Then neither healthy wilds... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1840 - 430 pages
...harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright. The screws revers'd—a task, which, if he please, God in a moment executes with ease— At once ten thousand thousand strings go loose, Lost, till he time them, all their power and use."... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...harp, whose chords elude the sight, 325 Each yielding harmony dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand springs at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. 330 Then neither heathy... | |
 | Thomas Simpson, Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1843 - 458 pages
...Cowper : Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright : The chords reversed (a task which, if He please, God in a moment...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Thus perished, before he had completed his thirty-second year, Thomas Simpson, a man of great ardour,... | |
 | 1845 - 558 pages
...heads that never ache suppose; Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright;...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." COWPER. How many immured within the walls of this asylum have learned this truth by sad experience... | |
 | Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1845 - 450 pages
...' Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright — The chords reversed, (a task which if He please, God, in a moment,...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use.' " A close scrutiny of the statements made by one of the survivors of my brother's party, (from the... | |
 | France - 1845 - 484 pages
...elude the sight, Kach yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed, (a task which, if lie please, God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." The faction of the dukes once more assumed the reins of power. Burgundy menaced the constable, who... | |
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