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
| David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...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... | |
| Nicole Ward Jouve - 1980 - Počet stránok 364
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| William Cowper - 1984 - Počet stránok 128
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| John R. Gillis - 1985 - Počet stránok 430
...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... | |
| Harold Bloom - 1986 - Počet stránok 344
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| Robert Fishman - 1987 - Počet stránok 280
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| Robert Fishman - 2008 - Počet stránok 274
...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... | |
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