 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
 | Emily Toth, Per Seyersted - 1998 - Počet stránok 366
...bent brush, as through the verdant maze Of Sweet-brier hedges I pursue my walk." Thompson. "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... | |
 | Joan W. Goodwin - 1998 - Počet stránok 436
...town," but she had found in Cowper's "The Task" a passage that confirmed her own feelings: 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... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - Počet stránok 322
...later eighteenth-century orthodoxy that rural living was ethically superior to urban living: God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts 100 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - 2003 - Počet stránok 124
...His firm stability to what he scorns— More fixt below, the more disturb'd above. [749-774] 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... | |
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