 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - 852 sider
...Toil strung their nerves, and purify'd their blood ; But we, their sons, a pampcr'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbouglit, Thaa fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. Among the ancients, hunting was esteemed, not... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 sider
...Toil strung the nerves, and purify M the blood ; But we, their sons, a pamper'd race of men, 90 Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for healths unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 sider
...food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. The tree of knowledge, once in Eden placed, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste: O had our grandsire... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 sider
...food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better...depend ; God never made his work for man to mend. The tree of knowledge, once in Eden placed, Was easy found, but was forbid the taste : O had our grandsire... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 366 sider
...; Toil strung the nerves, and ptirify'd the blood ; But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better...wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made bis work for man to mend. X. 117. SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1711. Ipsi sibi somniajingvnt. VIRG. F.cl.viii.... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 sider
...food; Toil strung the nerves, and purified the hlood; 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 unhonght, Than fee the Doctor for a nauseous dranght. The wise for cure on exercise depend: God never... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 sider
...; Toil strung the nerves, uhd purit'y'd 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 tor health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend... | |
 | 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 sider
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 612 sider
...anonjuring miniftcr. DERRICK. But we their fons, a pamper'd race of men, 90 Are dwindled down to threefco re 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.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 616 sider
...ancmjunng tniniftcr. DERRICK. But we their fons, a pamper'd race of men, 90 Are dwindled down to threefcore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the do&or for a naufeous draught, The wife, for cure, on exercife depend ; God never made his work, for... | |
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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. 
