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 | 1806 - 688 pages
...lines by Cowper, the comparison between the tvtnL.jf ol town and country. God made the country, and mm 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 he threaten'd, in... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...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 - 228 pages
...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 - 338 pages
...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) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...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 - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...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 - 1820 - 508 pages
...uurespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the towi What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter dranght That life holds out to all, should most abouad And least be threaten'd in... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...customs of her own, till sabhath rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and...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 - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 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....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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