 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...  The Emerald - Page 2241806Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1856 - 624 pages
...(lod made the eountry and man made the town; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds...should most abound And least he threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Coirper's Tatk. Seenes must he beautiful whieh daily view'd Please daily, and whose... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pages
...God made the country, and man made the townu What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That ca\x alone make sweet the bitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 578 pages
...made the eountry, and man tunde the town. What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean y hole he sneaks, through every Jakes Plunging, he wades besmea sheuld most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves? Possess ye, therefore, yo whe,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...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,...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 76 pages
...divorced. Q-od 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 least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...rule or art, enormous bliss. 833 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 294. God made the country, and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and...life holds out to all, should most abound, And least be threatened in the fields and groves? 834 Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 749. Scenes must be beautiful... | |
 | William Cowper - 1885 - 352 pages
...abrogate, as roundly as she may, The total ordinance and will of God. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder, then, that health and...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...harmonized, Amid a jarring world with vice enflamed. CountrjJ Eife. — Cowper. GOD made the Country, and man made the Town. What wonder, then, that health and...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten' d in the Fields and Groves. Countrj) Etfe. — Thomson. HERE too dwells simple Truth ;... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. FROM THE TASK. I. God made the country, and man his rein; And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted mo ulone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened... | |
 | Reginald Brabazon Meath (12th Earl of) - Great Britain - 1886 - 422 pages
...lives in the country, there are more than two that live in the town. God made the country, and man made the town ; What wonder, then, that health and...holds out to all — should most abound And least be threatened in the fields and groves ? The man who is able to enjoy the common pleasures of country... | |
| |
