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 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...rites Have dwindled into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorc'd. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. Gud 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,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...thebeami Of warm encouragement, and in the eye Of public note, they reach their perfect size. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then,...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bi:ter draught That life holds out ro all,- should most abound And least be threaten d in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...uurespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the towi What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter dranght That life holds out to all, should most abouad And least be threaten'd in... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...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. 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 AA 3 And least be threaten'd... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 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,...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 threatened in... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. 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... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound. And least be threaten'd,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country , arid man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts VOL. II. D That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound... | |
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