 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)...  Poems - Page 183by William Cowper - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...is an 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...Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities with tufted hills, Nor view of waters turning... | |
 | William Hayley - Authors, English - 1803 - 450 pages
...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 case ; ) • Ten thousand, thousand strings at once go loose ; Lost, till He tune them, all their paw'... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...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...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. CoWPEE. The sun shone upon a new order of things. At seven o'clock the intelligence of the demise of... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 526 pages
...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...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. COWPER. The sun shone upon a new order of things. At seven o'clock the intelligence of the demise of... | |
 | William Hayley - 1805 - 230 pages
...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...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, healsT And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 394 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, dispos'd aright ; The screws rcvers'd (a task, which, if He please, God, in a moment, executes...once go loose ; Lost, 'till He tune them, all their pow'r and use. C 2 HQ wounds like those, a wounded spirit fsels; No cure for such, 'till God, who makes... | |
 | Books - 1806 - 924 pages
...aright ; 'I "he screws revers'd (a task which, if he please, {Jod in a moment executes with ease), 'leu thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." COWPER. "The sun shone upon a new order of things. At seven o'clock th« intelligence of the demi«... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 330 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...Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care, Nor soft declivities with tufted bills, Nor view of waters turning... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws rcvers'd (a task which if he please God in a moment executes...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. COWPER The sun shone upon a new order of things. At seven o'clock the intelligence of the demise of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 390 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...once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their pow'r and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's care,... | |
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