 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; A wild,...  The Poetical Works - Page 12by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 412 pages
...little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'#r all this fcene of man ; t ,A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 422 pages
...fubmifl:on duo to Providence, both as to our prefent and future fcte. ver. z81, &c. to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things ^* To low ambition, and the pride of Kings, Let us (fmce Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...meaner thing* To low ambition, and the pride of KingsLet us (fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds, and flow'rs promifcuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...both as to our present and tuture elate, ver. 281, &c to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! 1 leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...to our prefent and future ftate, ver. 281, etc. to the end. ftrrcZX. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN t leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us (fince Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...found. *, " The thought is fomewhat fimilar to that of our own great poet, in his Eflay on' man. SlNCE LIFE CAN LITTLE MORE SUPPLY, THAN JUST TO LOOK ABOUT us AND TO DIE. POPE. VERSE XIII. XIV. WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME ; MY COUCH SHALL EASE MY COMPLAINT: THEN... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...to Providence, both as to our prefent and future ftate, ver. 281, &c. to the end. EPISTLE EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (fince Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die, ixpatiate free o'er all this fccnc of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcxion* JrGardcn, tempting with forbidden fruit, [fhoot} Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 316 pages
...fcience ; fince, I fay, all thefe things are fo, Let us, Cnce life c»n little more fupply. Than jufi to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plant YES, let us purfue the innocent delights which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...things To low ambition and the pride of king». Let us (lince life can little more lupply Than julr. to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuon*... | |
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