 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,)...  The Principles of Rhetoric and Their Application - Page 96by Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | lady Charlotte Susan M. Bury - 1822 - 1370 pages
...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 executes...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.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 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 with eas*,) Ten thousand thousand string at once go loose, Lost, tiU he tune them, all their pow'r and use.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...a broken heart. *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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Solomon Piggott - Suicide - 1824 - 422 pages
...isa harpwhose 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 with case), Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose — Lost, till He turn them, nil their power... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...a broken heart. Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forg'ry of fancy, and a 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 in a moment executes with ease),... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...a broken heart. 'Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forg'ry of fancy, and a 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 in a moment executes with ease),... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 pages
...suppose, Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes ; • Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Kach yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed...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 - 1826 - 264 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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 262 pages
...harp, whose chords elude the sight, 395 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 ho tune them, all their power and use. 339 Then neither heathy... | |
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