 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 - 1900
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are wellnigh 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 N. Crawford - 1903
...nature and of man. The first book concludes with reflections on the advantages of country life. 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... | |
 | Arthur Henry Beavan - 1903 - Počet stránok 291
...crime and despair." Truly in such cases one realises the truth of these lines : — . , , " God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draft That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and... | |
 | 1904
...give it thought at all, is best expressed in Cowper's well-known lines : God made the country, man 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... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904
...nature to repair Draws physic from the fields in draughts of air. — DRYDEN. God made the country, 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 threatened in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - Počet stránok 672
...cent'ring all authority in modes And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....and man made the town. What wonder then that "health andVirtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - Počet stránok 644
...an eduction to have been born and brought up u the country.— AB AlcoU. COURAGE COURTESY. God made 6i0y ѥ | y#s [ gK l Lײ * Z W kaf V } ד q3K0e \αp҅i 5I should most abound, and least be threatened in the fields an I groves. — Cowpur. I fancy the proper... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - Počet stránok 644
...an education to have been born and brought up n the country.— Л. U. ÁlcoU. 03 COURTESY. God made the test of ridicule — not ridicule the test of truth.— Bp. Warburton. Ridic should most alionnd. anil leant be threatened in the tieldn un 1 groves.— Cowper. 1 fancy the proper... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - Počet stránok 761
...more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. 833 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 294 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... | |
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