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) Ten... Poems - Σελίδα 188των William Cowper - 1821Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| William Cowper - 1801 - 280 σελίδες
...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 Cowper - 1803 - 310 σελίδες
...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...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,... | |
| William Hayley - 1803 - 450 σελίδες
...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 - 1805 - 526 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 314 σελίδες
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 310 σελίδες
...Forgery of fancy, and a dream of woes; Man is an harp whosc'chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright; The screws reversed (a task which...as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Nor saft declivities with tufted hilk, Nor view of waters turning busy mills, Parks in wjiiet .art preceptress... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 394 σελίδες
...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... | |
| 1806 - 924 σελίδες
...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«... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 320 σελίδες
...what the writer saw and felt in himself. How poetical, and how touching, are the following lines 1 Then, neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompensed the peasant's care, Not soft declivities with tufted hills, Nor view of waters turning busy mills; Parks in which art preceptress... | |
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