 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 - 1821 - 86 pages
...to our present and future state , 273, &c, A 9. AWAKE my St. Joas ! leave all meaner things To lew ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life...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 flowers promiscuous shoot : Or... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let...more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Cxpatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...Delille. ESSAI SUR L'HOMME AN ESSAY ON MAN. EPISTLE L AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things Tb low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us ( since Life can Utile more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expaliate free o'er all this scene of Man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. 10 EPISTLE I. AWAKE, 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...consequence of all the absolute submission dne to Providence, both as to our present and future state. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...lettres ; and, not to multiply instances, Horsley was mighty both in mathematics and divinity. Then " Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," let us increase our knowledge, cultivate our virtue, (I mean in the Christian, not in the heathen,... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 pages
...longer than usual, for in my state I can scarcely hope ever to see it again. But if, as Pope says, Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die, I certainly have no time to lose. 7th. My flight has been necessarily too rapid to allow any time for... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another — Spectator. 9. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...of man ; , A mighty maze ! But not without a plan, — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...these objects, we form a picturesque and instructive metaphor. " Let us (since life can little else supply, Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; i A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot : A... | |
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