The art of preserving health / by John Armstrong, to which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem by J. Aikin.

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The art of preserving health / by John Armstrong, to which is prefixed a critical essay on the poem by J. Aikin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I could recite. Tho’ old, he Hill retain’d His manly fenfe, and energy of mind. 225 Virtuous and wife he was, but not fevere; He Hill remember’d that he once was young; His eafy prefence check’d no decent joy. Him even the difiblute admir’d ; for he A graceful loofenefs when he pleas’d put on, 230 And laughing could indrutl. Much had he read, Much more had feen ; he ftudied from the life, And in th’ original perus’d mankind. Vers’d in the woes and vanities of life, He pitied man : and much he pitied thofe 235 Whom falfely-fmiling Fate has curs’d with means To diflipate their days in queft of joy. Our aim is happinefs ; ’tis yours, ’tis mine. He faid, ’tis the purfuit of all that live ; Yet few attain it, if ’twas ere attain’d. 240 But they the wideft wander from the mark, W^ho thro’ the flowery paths of faunt’ring joy