 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 the fields and groves...  The School of Wisdom - Page 581803 - 224 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...life holds out to all, mould moft abound And leaft be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? PofTefs ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and fedans,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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,...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 806 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knoes 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 Anil least be tlircaten'd in... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...friendly faces. How truly is it said, and one feels the force of it in rural regions — " 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 threatend in the... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 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 threaten'd in... | |
 | 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 - Poetry - 1854 - 460 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 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | 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,...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 iu... | |
 | 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...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... | |
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