 | Virgil - 1803 - 364 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things, for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sjieep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 310 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things for the first four thousand years of the world, Health and strength were...pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 442 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things, for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 436 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things, for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | 1813 - 432 страници
...in more esteem than the refinements of pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating sloth. Hunting has now an idea of quality joined to it, and is become the most important business in the life... | |
 | Virgil - 1819 - 488 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things, for the first four thousand years of the world, Health and strength were then in more esteem than , ihft refinements of pleasure ; and it was accounted a great d^aj more honourable to till the ground,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 440 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things, for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...pleasure ; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...of pleasure; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 страници
...wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite different notions of these things for the first four thousand years of the world. Health and strength were...of pleasure; and it was accounted a great deal more honourable to till the ground, or keep a flock of sheep, than to dissolve in wantonness and effeminating... | |
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... age and country the rule and standard of others, and ourselves at last the measure of them all. We figure the ancient countrymen like our own, leading a painful life in poverty and contempt, without wit, or courage, or education. But men had quite... 