 God made the country, and man made the town What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?  Poems - Page 29by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced, God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...all authority in modes 745 And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks arc well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man...town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...when she paints thee thus. -^— ' Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. p. 53. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught -•• . That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...cent'ring all authority in modes And customs of her own, till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten 'd in the fields... | |
 | 1828 - 32 pages
...of his wife. One day as he was reading aloud to his family, that fine passage in Cowper, " God made the country and man made the town ; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, Which can alone make sweet the bitter cup, Which life holds out to all, should most abound, And least... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...own, till sabbath-rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town....health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...all authority in modes 745 And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespccted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made N4P N4 L4 bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields... | |
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