 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 - 1854 - 458 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespectcd forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God 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 - 1855 - 298 pages
...rites Have dwindled into uninspected 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... | |
 | John Mitchell - Christian biography - 1855 - 280 pages
...tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." " 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 threatened iu the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 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... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Juvenile delinquency - 1855 - 176 pages
...miracle can save them from the consequences of ignorance — -juvenile delinquency. SECTION II. "God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That alone can make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...The erieket ehirrups in the hearth, The eraekling fagot flies. GMsmith's Hermit. God mode the eountry and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought. e, — Cowper. 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 threatened in the Fields... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...MOST HEALTH AND VIRTUE. — IDLENESS. — SIMPLE DESIRES AND JOYS OF THE COUNTRY FOREBODINGS. God made does not fade ? The tower that long had The crash of thunder and the warring winds, [stood bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1856 - 788 pages
...in which he gives many valuable hints for the rearing of plants and flowers, tells us — "Qod 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, siwulil matt abound And least be threatened in the Jieldt... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...centering all authority in modes And customs of her own, till sabbafh rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the townu What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That ca\x alone make sweet the bitter draught,... | |
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