...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...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden...

...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,...

...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...to die) Expatiate free, o'er all this scene of man ; , A mighty maze ! But not without a plan, — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old...

...or, as the poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable, " Come, Christopher, and leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little else supply; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field,...

...order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 326. on EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or...

...ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.EPISTLE I. Of Ike Nature and Stale of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden,...

...conformity to the order Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereon EPISTLE 1. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden,...

...JOHN LORD BOLINGBRORB. EPISTLE i. Of the Nature and State of Man Kith respect to the Universe. Awake, he glass Of Galileo, less assur'd, observes • Imagin'd...moon ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Delos bf Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;...

...objects, we fona a picturesque and instructive metaphor. " Let us (since Hfe can Kttle else sapply, 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 . A wfld, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; A garden,...

...of his Lordship ; and that the only merit of Pope was that of transferring it into verse. In writing Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, COMMENTARY. The Poet tells us next (line 16th) with what design he wrote, viz. " To vindicate the ways...