 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into unresperted forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the hitter draught, That life holds out to all, should most ahound And least he threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...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...virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter dranght, That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh dirorc'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 - 1810 - 212 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorc'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 - 1810 - 494 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...gifts, That can alone make sweet the bitter draught, 751 That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 Seiten
...rites Have dwindled into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocs are well nigh divorc'd. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then...groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye, who, borne about •ariots and sedans, know no fatigue But that of idleness, and taste no scenes But such as art contrives,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 496 Seiten
...virtne, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter dranght That life holds ont to all, shonld most abonnd And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne abont In chariots and sedaus, know no fatigne Bnt that of idleness, and taste no scenes Bnt snch as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 Seiten
...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...health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the hitter draught, That life holds out to all, should must abound And least be threaten'd in the fields... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 Seiten
...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...health and virtue, gifts, That can alone make sweet the hitter dranght, That life holds out to all, should most ahound And least he threatened in the fields... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 Seiten
...thebeami Of warm encouragement, and in the eye Of public note, they reach their perfect size. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then,...health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bi:ter draught That life holds out ro all,- should most abound And least be threaten d in :he fields... | |
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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... 
