 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
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pages
...spite ; And those the most where neither has the right. From ' The Task.' 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 threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | 1901 - 756 pages
...stt'll. — RtYant%$ '"•Fa te.it Hvmit Tibbitts, Phfto Tibbitts, Photo 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 froies. SUNSET MAGAZINE a great, a happy end. Bemoan not, friends,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1898 - 330 pages
...God made the country, and man made the town 7\^ What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts 75° 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... | |
 | Dietrich Lange - 1899 - 184 pages
...books on birds, see the catalogues and advertisements of publishers. 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. WILLIAM COWPER. INDEX [Binomials are indexed twice. Publications... | |
 | Estelle May Hurll - 1899 - 514 pages
...health and virtue which most abound in the free life of God's country. " 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." 1 1 From Cowper's Task. A study of the lines of the picture... | |
 | 1899 - 816 pages
...forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town: 750 What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts 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 248 THOMSON TO TENNYSON... | |
 | 1900 - 134 pages
...health and virtue which most abound in the free life of God's country. " 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." l 1 From Cowper's Task. A study of the lines of the picture... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900 - 346 pages
...divorced. 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 least be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...first book concludes with reflections on the advantages of country life. 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 threatened in the fields and groves ? The second book is entitled " The Timepiece," and opens with... | |
 | 1904 - 208 pages
...give it thought at all, is best expressed in Cowper's well-known lines : God made the country, man the town ; What wonder then, that Health and Virtue,...life holds out to all, should most abound and least Be threatened in the fields and groves. These words, though penned before the rise of commercialism... | |
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