 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 - Strana 29podľa William Cowper - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Cowper - 1854 - Počet stránok 458
...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 - Počet stránok 298
...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 - 1855 - Počet stránok 280
...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 - Počet stránok 582
...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.) - 1855 - Počet stránok 176
...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 - 1855 - Počet stránok 610
...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... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 570
...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 - 1856 - Počet stránok 574
...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 - 1856 - Počet stránok 788
...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 - Počet stránok 512
...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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