 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 - Page 31by William Cowper - 1803 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Hole - Conduct of life - 1870 - 260 pages
...vigorous working of the brain in so large a measure depends. 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 - 1872 - 290 pages
...unrcspected 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 threaten'd in... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 132 pages
...shame, And their inveterate habits, all forbid. TOWN 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 640 pages
...scenes, Prefer to the performance of a god." — The Sofa. " 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...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 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly ! Goldsmith. God made the country, and man made the town ; s, — Where sorrow sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...MADE, and the first city Cain. COWLEY, Tlie Garden. — 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...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... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Examinations - 1878 - 320 pages
...or clauses does ''and" connect? 64. What is the leading subject of the following sentence : — 0) "What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts (') That can alone make sweet the hitter draught (3) That life holds out to all, should most abound (4) And least be threatened... | |
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