 | 1729 - 342 pagine
...Hut we their Sons, a pamper' d Race of Men, jirt dwindled down to threefeore Tears and tea. Stater to hunt in fields for Health unbought, Than fee the Doctor for a naufeons Draught, The Wife ftr Cure on Exercife depend : God never made his Work for Man to mend, N°... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 488 pagine
...the blood: But we their fons, a pamper'd race of men, A re dwindled down to threefcore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a naufeous draught. The wife, for cure, on exercife depend ; God never made his work, for man to mend.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pagine
...blood : But we their fom, a pamper' d race »f men, Are dwindled down to threcfcore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a naufeous draught. The wife, for cure, on exercife depend ; God never made his work for man to meud.... | |
 | Peter Beckford - 1797 - 412 pagine
...neceflary part of it, fince nothing conduces more to both : a great genius hath told us, that it is Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a naufeous draught. With regard to its peaceful ftate, according to 3 modern poet : No fierci unruly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pagine
...the blood ; But we their sqns, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made his work for man to mend. X, N° 117. SATURDAY,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pagine
...the blood ; But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : Cpd never made his work for man to mend. X, M°1n. SATURDAY,... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 594 pagine
...their blood. But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to three-score years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : GOD never made his work for man to mend." DRYDE).. We have said... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pagine
...the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. The tree of knowledge,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pagine
...the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. The tree of knowledge,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1834 - 558 pagine
...had no skill as a sportsman — seeking merely exercise, and thinking, as Dryden says, that it was Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for his noxious draught.' Was there any harm in this ? and for Sir Egerton Brydges, of all men, to sneer... | |
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Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. 
