 | C. P. Bronson - Elocution - 1845 - 334 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight j Each yielding harmony, disposed aright: The screws werstfl, Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose,— Lost, till he tune them, all iheir power and use. I have read the instructed volume, Of human nature ; there, long since, have learned,... | |
 | Maria Fox - Quaker women - 1846 - 518 pages
...and feeling emphasis, Cowper's lines, " Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright ; The screws reversed, a...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use." 13th, Seventh-day. Her faith and patience were now to be put to a still closer proof. To languor and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...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...executes with ease), Ten thousand thousand strings al once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. Then neither heathy wilds, nor... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...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...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." If... | |
 | Anne T. Drinkwater - 1848 - 282 pages
...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...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use." But amid all her sufferings, we see her manifesting the spirit of the gospel; and though conscious... | |
 | John William Lester - English literature - 1848 - 112 pages
...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,...Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use. But far more exquisitely, more touchingly beautiful than all are those lines in which he refers " to... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...started into being, the poet is right : " Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws reversed, (a...thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost till he tunes them all their power and use." The circumstance was one well calculated to give rise to serious... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...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...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... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Faith - 1849 - 408 pages
...have quoted above, knew from experience. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright. The screws reversed (a task...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. Very many things are to be guarded against ; God's Word is to be constantly and carefully hidden in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright ; The screws, re versed (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... | |
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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,)... 
