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... Poems - עמוד 31מאת William Cowper - 1805תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Goodloe Harper Bell - 1897 - 390 דפים
...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... | |
| 1901 - 756 דפים
...And tremble and are stt'll. — RtYant%$ '"•Fa te.it Hvmit Tibbitts, Phfto Tibbitts, Photo 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... | |
| Dietrich Lange - 1899 - 184 דפים
...valuable but more expensive books on birds, see the catalogues and advertisements of publishers. 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... | |
| Estelle May Hurll - 1899 - 514 דפים
...choicest gifts are the health and virtue which most abound in the free life of God's country. " 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... | |
| 1899 - 816 דפים
...forms, 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 in... | |
| William Cowper - 1900 - 346 דפים
...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...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... | |
| 1900 - 134 דפים
...choicest gifts are the health and virtue which most abound in the free life of God's country. " 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... | |
| Arthur Henry Beavan - 1903 - 320 דפים
...hopeless under-strata of crime and despair." Truly in such cases one realises the truth of these "God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then...that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draft That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the... | |
| John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 דפים
...nature and of man. The first book concludes with reflections on the advantages of country life. 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... | |
| 1904 - 208 דפים
...give it thought at all, is best expressed in Cowper's well-known lines : God made the country, man 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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