 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...The erieket ehirrups in the hearth, The eraekling fagot flies. GMsmith's Hermit. God mode the eountry and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1856 - 788 pages
...in which he gives many valuable hints for the rearing of plants and flowers, tells us — "Qod 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, siwulil matt abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...has a heart Susceptible of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought. e, — Cowper. 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... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...MOST HEALTH AND VIRTUE. — IDLENESS. — SIMPLE DESIRES AND JOYS OF THE COUNTRY FOREBODINGS. God made does not fade ? The tower that long had The crash of thunder and the warring winds, [stood sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...hassocks are well-nigh divorced. FATAL EFFECTS OF EFFEMINACY AND DISSIPATION ON PUBLIC MEASURES. 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 740-1. " An infidel contempt of holy writ Stole by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...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...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 - 1859 - 76 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. Q-od 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... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced.] God made the country, | and man made the town : | 750 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1861 - 696 pages
...and conceitedness."t He would have stickled stoutly for every syllable of Cowper's doctrine, God made the country, and man made the town : What wonder,...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... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1863 - 316 pages
...endure than those which it has pleased the Almighty to deal out to ourselves.' CHAPTER V. ' 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... | |
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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? 
