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 221by Sir John Carr - 1806 - 330 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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
...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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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