 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
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 958 pages
...which they had so recently been pronouncing the highest and most fulsome eulogy. CHAPTER XII. God made the country, and man made the town ; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, pifts That can alone make sweet the hitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 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 - 1836 - 206 pages
...centring all authority in modes And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unreapected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the townWhat wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divcrc'd. 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 - 1839 - 554 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespeeted 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 - 1841 - 240 pages
...sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks aro well-nigh divorc'd. 1 made the country, and man made the 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 - English poetry - 1842 - 166 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 - 1842 - 162 pages
...all authority in modes 745 And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespecttd 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 Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...gaiety that tills the bones with pain, The mouth with blasphemy, the heart with wo. TOWN LIFE. GOD made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...and virtue — gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all — should most abound, And least be threatened, in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1846 - 310 pages
...customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassaeks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and...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... | |
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