 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 - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...and future Mate, c.fltt, &c. to the end. AWAKE, my St. Jolm! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! hut not without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...to our present and future state. \ WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things -,-*- To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Thau just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maae '... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - Authors, English - 1807 - 238 pages
...Mr. Macintosh by his intimates, on account of bis HigKland enthusiasm. 4 " O why " O why, siace lite can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," should the few among us who understand its value, squander it so lavishly, and leave so little for... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...divides the line into two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breathe, as " Awake my St. John — leave all meaner things " To...free — o'er all this scene of man, " A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." Here the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 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...A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; A garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field; Try what the open,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Than jnst to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all...wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forhidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what they open, what... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKF, my Saiut John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little mon supply Than just to look about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 698 pages
...due to Providence, both as to 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 464 pages
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, pr as a badineur, if you think that more effectual. * Awake^ my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Bis lordship was, however, so much taken up with the lower and more paltry concerns of politickt, that... | |
 | 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... | |
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