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" 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,)... "
A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... - Page 221
by Sir John Carr - 1806 - 330 pages
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Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2

Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1838 - 400 pages
...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,) Ten thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till He tune them, all their power of use. Then neither healthy wilds...
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The Fourth Reader for the Use of Schools

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...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...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. 2. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...harmony, disposed aright, The serews reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment exeeutes with ease) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft deelivities...
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A descriptive tour in Scotland; by T.H.C.

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."...
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 1

William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...VOL. I. 14 Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, 325 Each yielding harmony dispos'd aright ; The screws revers'd, (a task which if he please God...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...
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Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America: Effected by the ...

Thomas Simpson, Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1843 - 458 pages
...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 executes...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,...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

1845 - 558 pages
...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...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...
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The Life and Travels of Thomas Simpson, the Arctic Discoverer

Alexander Simpson - Arctic regions - 1845 - 444 pages
...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, executes...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...
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The history of France, Volume 1

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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Elocution; Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of ...

C. P. Bronson - Anatomy - 1845 - 330 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight j Each yielding harmony, disposed aright: The screws reversed, Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, —...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. I have read the instructed volume, Of human nature; there, long since, have learned, The way— to...
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