 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1864 - 622 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made me still the same. Faithful remembrancer of one so dear, 0 welcome guest, th !;ift» That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound... | |
 | M A. G - 1865 - 98 pages
...flowers. Will much more care for him." MARY HOWITT. CHAPTER IV. FOREBODINGS. • God made the country, 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 most abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - American poetry - 1866 - 176 pages
...joy; and, hid beneath The fair profusion, yellow Autumn spies. Town and Country Life. COWPE1\. 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,... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...silent evening skies Together they followed the cattle home. KATE P. OSGOOD. TOWN AND COUNTRY. ODmade the country, and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That can alone makesweetthe biiterdraught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 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 75o That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves?... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...Trips with a smile the breezy scene along And pours the spirit of content in song. Dr. Wolcot. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - 204 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are wellnigh 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 threatened in... | |
 | Charles Finch Dowsett - Agriculture - 1892 - 960 pages
...be forgotten. Even physically this inevitable deterioration is to be seen and felt : — " 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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1895 - 768 pages
...fancies, pouring forth more sweet, Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. Milton, PL f. 294. 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favourites share. COWPER : Retirement. 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? 
