 | Herbert Byng Hall - 1849 - 492 páginas
...clearly distinguished. When looking on such scenes, we may well exclaim — " God made the country, 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 meet entwined, And least be threatened... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 páginas
...feeling, they will seemingly grow poor out of spite to him for not giving them enough to eat. 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 - 1851 - 624 páginas
...customs of her own, till sabbath rites Have dwindled into unrespccted forms, And knees and hassocks P' , 8' , gift* That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 páginas
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divoreed. 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... | |
 | 1851 - 496 páginas
...than all the gloss of art. WILLIAM COWPER. BOKN, 1731; DIED, 1800. TOWN AND COUNTRY LITE. 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,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 páginas
...more the glory of the earth than she, A more accomplish'd world's chief glory now. * * * * * 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... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...Come we'll e'en to our country-se&t repair, The natire home of innocence and love. Norris. 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... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 páginas
...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...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 - 1854 - 460 páginas
...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...: 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... | |
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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... 
