 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
 | 1911 - Počet stránok 654
...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 threatened in the fields... | |
 | 1913 - Počet stránok 250
...choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life. Thomson: Seasons. Autumn. 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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - Počet stránok 816
...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 Ufe holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | 1924
...sitting and eating, the feast having been provided for by their parents and the teacher.) GOD MADE THE COUNTRY, AND MAN MADE THE TOWN. WHAT WONDER, THEN, THAT HEALTH AND VIRTUE SHOULD MOST ABOUND, AND LEAST BE THREATENED, IN THE FIELD AND OROVES. — Cowper Organization of a... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - Počet stránok 1100
...respondent dance. Thus jocund fleets with them the winter night. ThtSftaont: Winter. THOMSON 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... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Horticultural Society. Meeting - 1881
...green treea fully sensible." And the melancholy Cowper says: ' ' God made the country and man mude the town, What wonder, then, that health and virtue, Gifts that can alone make sweet the bitter cup Life holds to us, should raottt abound. And least be threatened in the fields and groves."... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 319
...rhetorical tradition of abuse so effectively drawn on by Dr. Johnson in his "London" is Cowper's 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 R. Gillis - 1985 - Počet stránok 417
...The image of the celibate city was already deeply rooted when Cowper wrote his famous lines: God made the country, and man made the town What wonder then, that health and virtue . . . Should most abound. And least be threatened in the fields and groves?3 Graunt and the others... | |
 | Robert Fishman - 2008 - Počet stránok 272
...famous lines, Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the fall! 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... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff - 1995 - Počet stránok 276
...It was summed up hy Cowper writing only two years after Crahhe, in his damning verdict that God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then, that health and virtue . . . . . . should most ahound. And least he threatened in the fields and groves? The characteristics... | |
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