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 - Seite 183von William Cowper - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 Seiten
...a harp, whose chords elude the sight j Each yielding harmony, disposed aright: The screws reversed, Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, —...Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use. I have read the instructed volume, Of human nature; there, long since, have learned, The way— to... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 Seiten
...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 - 1846 - 518 Seiten
...repeated, with her own most impressive and feeling emphasis, Cowper's lines, " Man is a harp, whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| John William Lester - 1848 - 112 Seiten
...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;...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... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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;...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... | |
| 1848 - 530 Seiten
...Truly, said I, as the big tears started into being, the poet is right : " Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony disposed aright...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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1849 - 408 Seiten
...Christian Poet, Cowper, whom we have quoted above, knew from experience. Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright....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... | |
| Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - 1850 - 694 Seiten
...are brought into active exercise. 1 96 [AsSKMBLT " The mind," says Cowper, " 1s, A harp, whose chords elude the sight Each yielding harmony, disposed aright....God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand times ten thousand strings go loose; Lost, till He tune them, all their power and use." Dr. Forster... | |
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