 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...customs of her own, till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and...town: What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That Ufe holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1854 - 580 pages
...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 - Art - 1924 - 680 pages
...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 - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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 - Courtship - 1985 - 430 pages
...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 - Social Science - 2008 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Leonore Davidoff - History - 1995 - 294 pages
...It was summed up hy Cowper writing only two years after Crahhe, in his damning verdict that God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then, that health and virtue . . . . . . should most ahound. And least he threatened in the fields and groves? The characteristics... | |
 | Joan W. Goodwin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 436 pages
...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... | |
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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 threatened in the fields and groves... 
