...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast. The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reign'd...

...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow: Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest. And falling acorns furnished out a feast." This from Ovid, but similar testimony as to the dietetics...

...description of the golden age: — . The teeming earth, yet guiltless or the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : < Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings nnd on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished...

...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished oat a feast, The flowers unsown, in fields and meadows reigu'd ;...

...histories, ranging from that earliest age when men fed upon the simplest productions of the ground, when Content with food which Nature freely bred, On wildings...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acoms furnished out a feast. * down to Rosalind and the " Children in the Wood,"...

...Metamorphosis, in relation to the diet of the first generations of men, as rendered by Dryden — ' Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out the feast.' i. .Slianus, who in the first century of the Christian...

...description of the golden age: — The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plongh, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawherries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-herries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished ont...

...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which Nature freely bred, On wildlings and on strawberries they fed ; Cornels and brambleberries gave the rest, And falling acorns...

...soft creation slept away their time. The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which...strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ;...

...Metamorphosis, in relation to the diet of the first generations of men, as rendered by Dryden — 1 Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings...strawberries they fed ; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns famished out the feast ' i. .aDlianus, who in the first century of the Christian...