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
| British poets - 1809 - Počet stránok 526
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter dranght, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - Počet stránok 212
...rites Have dwindled into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorc'd. 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1811 - Počet stránok 228
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd. 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... | |
| William Cowper - 1815 - Počet stránok 338
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the hitter draught, That life holds out to all, should must abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - Počet stránok 414
...heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. Gud 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,... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1817 - Počet stránok 256
...thebeami Of warm encouragement, and in the eye Of public note, they reach their perfect size. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then,...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bi:ter draught That life holds out ro all,- should most abound And least be threaten d in... | |
| William Cowper - 1821 - Počet stránok 556
...own, till sabbath rites 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 threatened in... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - Počet stránok 314
...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. 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 AA 3 And least be threaten'd... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - Počet stránok 562
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. 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 Platts - 1822 - Počet stránok 844
...heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, And only there, please highly for their sake. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound. And least be threaten'd,... | |
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