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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,)... "
Narrative of the Discoveries on the North Coast of America: Effected by the ... - Page xviii
by Thomas Simpson, Alexander Simpson - 1843 - 419 pages
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...; Man is a harp whose chords elude 6 the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed (a task which, if He please, God in a moment...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...
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On the Banks of the Ouse Or Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago: A Story

Emma Marshall - English fiction - 1888 - 406 pages
...; 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...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...
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On the Banks of the Ouse Or Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago: A Story

Emma Marshall - English fiction - 1888 - 380 pages
...; 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...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...
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The Poetical Works

William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...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...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. 330 Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor soft...
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The English Poets: Addison to Blake

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1889 - 634 pages
...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) 449 Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair...
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The Principles of Rhetoric

Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 454 pages
...— " 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...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." * " The truth is that Macaulay was not only accustomed, like many more of us, to go out hobby-riding,...
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The Principles of Rhetoric

Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 450 pages
...— " 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...loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use."1 " The truth is that Macaulay was not only accustomed, like many more of us, to go out hobby-riding,...
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The Principles of Rhetoric

Adams Sherman Hill - English language - 1895 - 452 pages
...harmony disposed aright; The screws reversed (a task which, if he please, God in a moment execntes with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings at once...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." 1 " The truth Is that Macaulay was not only accustomed, like many more of us, to go out hobby-riding,...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 656 pages
...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) 449 Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair...
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Talks on Writing English

Arlo Bates - English language - 1896 - 342 pages
...example : 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...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. If this stopped with the second line, it might do well enough ; but when the attention is forced to...
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