 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 - 1850 - 516 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 threatened in the fields... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...feeling, they will seemingly grow poor out of spite to him for not giving them enough to eat. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...than all the gloss of art. WILLIAM COWPER. BOKN, 1731; DIED, 1800. TOWN AND COUNTRY LITE. 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 - 1851 - 624 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespccted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made ( , ' , gift* That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...And kneesand hassocks are well-nigh divorced. ' jkjLm,a|1"-*h" ivmntiy, and man mndr tht- tnwn. Vfiat hat it was a trifle which, if he did not meet with, neither would he fee bitter draugh That life holds out to all, should most abound Ind least be threatened in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1852 - 466 pages
...customs of her own. till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks ore well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be tbreaten'd in the fields... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplish'd world's chief glory now. * * * * * 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Come we'll e'en to our country-se&t repair, The natire home of innocence and love. Norris. 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 in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 522 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrefpected forms, And knees and haflbcks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make fweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, mould moft abound And leaft be threaten'd in the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 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. God made the country, and man mj"1" *'"* tnv" WhaTwondettlien thai ncaitn and virtue, gifts '750 That cairalbne'ffiaEe sweet tSe... | |
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