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.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    Seek this coy goddefs ; that from flage to ftage Invites us dill, but flaifts as we purfue. 244 For, not to name the pains that pleafure brings To counterpoife itfelf, relentlefs Fate Forbids that we thro’ gay voluptuous wilds Should ever roam ; and were the Fates more kind, Our narrow luxuries would foon grow dale. 249 Were thefe exhaudlefs, nature would grow fick. And, cloy’d with pleafure, fqueamifhly complain That all is vanity, and life a dream. Let nature red : be bufy for yourfelf. And for your friend ; be bufy even in vain Rather than teaze her fated appetites. 255 Who never fads, no banquet e’er enjoys ; Who never toils or watches, never lleeps. Let nature red : and when the tade of joy Grows keen, indulge ; but diun fatiety. ’Tis not for mortals alwavs to be bled. 260 But him the lead the dull or painful hours