 | Albany Institute - 1830 - 356 pages
...country, (says the poet,) and man made the town. What wonder then (he adds) that health and virtue, girts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, That...holds out to all, should most abound, And least be threatened, in the fields and groves . Among the knowledge which the wisest of men possessed was that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespccted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...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 sedans,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God 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... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1833 - 958 pages
...which they had so recently been pronouncing the highest and most fulsome eulogy. CHAPTER XII. God made the country, and man made the town ; What wonder, then, that health and virtue, pifts That can alone make sweet the hitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue But that of idleness, and taste no scenes But such as art contrives,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 206 pages
...forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the townWhat wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can...life holds out to all, should most abound And least he threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...writ Stole by degrees upon his mind. Excursion, p. 63. <6 What wonder then, if fields and regions here That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That...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 sedans,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...675. 46 What wonder then, if fields and regions here Breathe forth elixir pure. Par. Lost, iii. 606. That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That...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 sedans,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divcrc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue But that of idleness, and taste no scenes But such as art contrives,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...rites Have dwindled into unrespeeted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then,...groves) Possess ye therefore, ye who borne about In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue Bat that of idleness, and taste no scenes But such as art contrives,—... | |
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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 threaten'd in the fields and groves... 
