 | 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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 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 75o That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - 204 pages
...customs of her own, till Sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are wellnigh divorced. God made the country, and man...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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...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. 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... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 346 pages
...competitions but engender spite ; And those the most where neither has the right. r From ' The Task.' 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... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - English language - 1897 - 392 pages
...on stealthy feet, Tiptoeing, lest it wake some thought The heart would dread to meet. 36. 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... 
