 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 School of Wisdom - Seite 581803 - 224 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1861 - 696 Seiten
...and conceitedness."t He would have stickled stoutly for every syllable of Cowper's doctrine, 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... | |
 | Matilda Charlotte Houstoun - 1863 - 316 Seiten
...endure than those which it has pleased the Almighty to deal out to ourselves.' CHAPTER V. ' 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 - 1864 - 622 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made me still the same. Faithful remembrancer of one so dear, 0 welcome guest, th !;ift» That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound... | |
 | M A. G - 1865 - 98 Seiten
...flowers. Will much more care for him." MARY HOWITT. CHAPTER IV. FOREBODINGS. • God made the country, 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 most abound And least be threatened in... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1874 - 688 Seiten
...Who, satisfied with only pencilled 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... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - 1866 - 176 Seiten
...joy; and, hid beneath The fair profusion, yellow Autumn spies. Town and Country Life. COWPE1\. 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,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 Seiten
...love of truth, Their thirst of knowledge, and their candor too ! COUNTRY AND TOWN. Cowpra. 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... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1870 - 260 Seiten
...full vital power on which the 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... | |
 | John Matheson - 1870 - 590 Seiten
...circumstances, a promise that he would not marry in England ! CHAPTER XXXVII. THE MOFUSSIL. 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 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into 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... | |
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