 AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ;...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 59by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...our present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things .**. To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life ran little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of... | |
 | Young lady - Psychology - 1809 - 204 pages
...in whatever is hurtful, and compel them to remove and keep at a distance every thing of this sort. Let us (since life can little more supply. Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. What an inscrutable abyss is the knowledge of the incomprehensible Author of Nature, who, in so stupendous... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...ambition and the Pride of Kings. Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A. mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; [shoot; A WrM, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous Or Garden, templing with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...John — -leave all meaner things To low ambition — and the pride of kings; I,rt us — since lite can little more supply, Than just to look about us — and to (lie, Expatiate free — o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." Here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE L AWAKK, my St, John ! leave all meaner thing* To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us (since...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze t but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and (lowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner tiling^ I'o low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let vis (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weedsand flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - Italian literature - 1813 - 446 pages
...milord Saiut John Bolingbroke con questi otto versi. „ Avvake, my Saint John! Leave all meaner thingi To low ambition, and the pride of Kings Let us ( since...Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate fr«e o' er all this Scene of Man; A mighty Maze? but not without a plan; A Wild, where weedsand flowers... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, my St. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promisc'ous shoot, Or... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose. PoP*, LESSON XVII. EXAMPLES OF PARENTHESES. LET ns (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. POPE* in a word, (for far behind his worth all the praises that I now bestow) rle is complete in feature... | |
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