 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 342 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Arlo Bates - 1896 - 344 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 716 Seiten
...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. 330 Then neither heathy wilds, nor scenes as fair As ever recompens'd the peasant's... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1906 - 628 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1908 - 632 Seiten
...sight, Each jiekliiig_hiiriliuiiy, disposed' aright ';'„' "Trie screws reversed (a task wTucTTif He please God in a moment executes with ease) Ten...strings at once go loose, Lost, till He tune them, ajljheirjjiiwer andoise. 330 TheTTneriher heathy wilds, nor scenes as failAs' ever recompensed the... | |
 | John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - 1902 - 346 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1862 - 746 Seiten
...harp whose chords elude the sight. Each yielding harmony disposed aright: The screws reversed (alag ! which, if he please, God in a moment executes with...loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and nge.' How well the writer of those lines himself illustrates their meaning : William Cowper ; that... | |
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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,)... 
