 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
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...is an harp whose cords 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. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | Fabius (pseud.) - 1821 - 44 pages
...harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; 20 The screws reversed (a task, which if he please, •. God in a moment...loose, Lost, till he tune them all their power and use. •-. » " •"' . . • -. - • - ! .£ f'| It is no common characteristic of a general that every... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 572 pages
...chords elude the sight, : : ' Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; . 41 • The screws reversed (a task, which if he please, God in a moment executes...Lost, till he tune them all their power and use." * • • • • It is no common characteristic of a general, that every individual in his army should... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1821 - 582 pages
...a harp, whose chorda elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task, which if he please, God in a moment executes...thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he Uine them all their power and use." • • • » • Jt is no common characteristic of a general,... | |
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1822 - 1370 pages
...XI. Man is an harp whose chords elude the sight. Each yielding harmony dispos'd aright ; The scene revers'd, (a task which, if he please, God in a moment...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels,—. No cure for such till God, who makes them, heals.... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 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. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...dream of woes ; Man 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...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...dream of woes ; Man 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...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. o 2 Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...harmony disposed adght; The screws reversed (a task which, if he pleaso, God in л moment exécutée with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heath? wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the j*asant's care, Nor soft declivities... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 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...with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loos<*, Lost till he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither healthy wilds, nor scenes as... | |
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