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 - 1824 - Počet stránok 446
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - Počet stránok 242
...all authority in modes 745 And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....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 - 1826 - Počet stránok 242
...customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks arc well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man...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... | |
| 1827 - Počet stránok 290
...when she paints thee thus. -^— ' Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade. p. 53. 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - Počet stránok 468
...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....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... | |
| 1828 - Počet stránok 32
...of his wife. One day as he was reading aloud to his family, that fine passage in Cowper, " God made the country and man made the town ; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts, Which can alone make sweet the bitter cup, Which life holds out to all, should most abound, And least... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Počet stránok 256
...own, till 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....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... | |
| William Cowper - 1830 - Počet stránok 328
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1831 - Počet stránok 192
...all authority in modes 745 And customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd....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 - 1832 - Počet stránok 602
...rites Have dwindled into unrespccted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made N4P N4 L4 bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields... | |
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