 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...  Poems - Page 38by William Cowper - 1810Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 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...health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the hitter draught, That life holds out to all, should must abound And least be threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | 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...groves? Possess ye, therefore, ye, who, borne about In chariot* and sedans, know no fatigue But that of idleness, and taste no scenes Bat such as art contrives... | |
 | 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,...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 :he fields... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then 'hat health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught Tlmtlife holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten 'fl in the fields and groves ?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - 306 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassacks are well-nigh divorc'i. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...borne about In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue Cut that of idleness, and taste no scenes But such as art contrives, possess ye still Your element,... | |
 | 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,...holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves. Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and sedans,... | |
 | 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...draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound AA 3 And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In... | |
 | Heron - 1821 - 944 pages
...made the country, and roan made tlie town; What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That cnn alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least be threatened, in the fields and groves ? COWFER. LORD and lady Rosvellyn, after spending several weeks... | |
 | 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...virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound. And least be threaten'd, in the fields and... | |
 | British poets - 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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