 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...on EPISTLE I. 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...all this scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1824 - 554 pages
...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...of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . A wfld, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; A garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...the Universe. Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. he 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;... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 372 pages
...will I trust. COVERT - God as Our Protector and Comforter Alexander Pope, in An Essay On Man, wrote Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield. Let us try to find out what the figure of God as our covert can yield. We read that King Ahaz removed... | |
 | Peter France - History - 1992 - 268 pages
...in his version: 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...promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Sors de l'enchantement, Milord; laisse au vulgaire Le séduisant espoir d'un bien imaginaire: Fuis... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - Architecture - 1992 - 414 pages
...begins the Essay on Man with an exactly similar testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Of scores out with all men — especially pipers;...we've promised them aught, let us keep our promise. (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - Philosophy - 1993 - 296 pages
...landed gentleman: 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...die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 366 pages
...in his effort to get a purchase on the problem of the imagination, poetry, and ethical obligations: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts,... | |
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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 ;... 
