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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; A wild,... "
Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of Sensations - Page 123
by Young lady - 1809 - 191 pages
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An Etymological and Explanatory Dictionary of Words Derived from the Latin ...

Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...Ex-patiate, from expatior, I rove about without any prescribed limits ; to enlarge upon in language. " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, " A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." Pope. Ex-pect, expecto, (see SPECIo, p. 37,) I look for. To look far, is a species of waiting, drawn...
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Going Too Far. A Tale for All Ages

Going - 1825 - 662 pages
...departure of the giddy trio, which was then broken by Mr. Irwin. " How lamentable is it," said he, " when Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die." to observe any of such precious hours wasted on vanities of which the certain end is vexation of spirit."...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man :" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan !" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man:" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan!" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be...
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A legacy of affection, advice, and instruction, from a retired governess, to ...

Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...breath, as "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...free — o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." In these lines the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas...
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Educational Pamphlets 61: History of Education in America].

1827 - 460 pages
...— since in the dying words of Laplace, " The known is little, but the unknown is immense," and " Since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die," it is a question of paramount importance, how in this short period education can be made to conduce...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...end. EPISTLE X. 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...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot Or, gardens tempting with forbidden fruit. Together...
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Die Biotomie des Menschen: oder, Die Wissenschaft der Natur-Eintheilungen ...

Wilhelm Butte - Anthropology - 1829 - 644 pages
...S!erlauf$. b. ®. 3tt>etter S3 iotomie ш jweifadien ©efdjledjtéí „L«l us* — — — — — — — Expatiate free, o'er all. this scene of Man, , A mighty maze ! but not without a plan !" ,' . ' Pope. I. in betn Dptimum feineé 9¿ormalíS5erlauf$. §. 120. Äataftev bcé Gefd)lecf)t$...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1830 - 658 pages
...that he has succeeded in tracing the undoubted pedigree ? To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us, since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plan.' Need we say who this worthy is? In sober truth, he is a Curemonger, the quack-regnant of his day, infinitely...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...end. EPISTLE I. AWAKK, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Эг garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together...
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