 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 threatened in the fields and groves...  Poems - Strana 31podľa William Cowper - 1805Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | William Cowper - 1854 - Počet stránok 580
...own, till Sabbath ritee Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town....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... | |
 | Pedro Joseph Lemos - 1924 - Počet stránok 680
...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 424
...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,...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... | |
 | Indiana Horticultural Society, Indiana Horticultural Society. Meeting - 1881 - Počet stránok 180
...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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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