 | Charles Box - 1868 - 204 pagine
...of all who play, and rubs the wrinkles out of the hearts of all who witness it." Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for health on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. And again : " No real... | |
 | Metrical epitaphs - 1868 - 266 pagine
...Dr. Johnson, "is easiness and simplicity." His poems consist of FROM THE SPANISH. " BETTER to roam the fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught." This maxim long I happily pursued, And fell disease my health then ne'er subdued ; But to be more than... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pagine
...to make a short essay, Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. Line 407. 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. Epistle xiii. Line 92.... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1869 - 224 pagine
...their sons, a pampered 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 health on exercise depend, God never made his work for man to mend.' " Let us, my friends,... | |
 | Gouverneur Mather Smith - 1870 - 82 pagine
...live cleanly." Dryden, in reprobating sedentary habits, has playfully written — " Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught : The wise for health on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend." Should mankind resolve... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 238 pagine
...their sons, a pampered 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." Dryden. ABOUT five miles... | |
 | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1871 - 234 pagine
...their sons, a pampered 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." Dryden. ABOUT five miles... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pagine
...sons, a pampered race of men, 9° 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 meaning is, " ll is a pity that the generous kind,'1 &c. . T Dr. Guibbons, a celebrated physician of... | |
 | Tresham Gilbey - 1872 - 474 pagine
...ridden over a fence in his life). 'To use the words of the poet, ' gentlemen— ' Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.' He was getting his second wind, and poetical at the same time, and had coached up the above quotation... | |
 | Charles Patrick Fox - 1871 - 292 pagine
...put within the Zouave gaiters or long boots. 4 CHAPTER VIII. THE HUNTING DRESS. * Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. ANON. PERHAPS there is no costume in a gentleman's wardrobe that is more to be admired than that worn... | |
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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. 
