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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 ;... "
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 59
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ...

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...
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The Truth and Safety of the Christian Religion Deduced from Reason and ...

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...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 46

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...
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Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces

William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 318 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...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

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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Roach's Beauties of the Modern Poets of Great Britain: Carefully Selected ...

James Roach - English poetry - 1793 - 274 pages
...more agreeable. AK ' • ' ESSAY ON ' MA N. '•• ' * . By. ALEXANDER POPE, Eft. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST.. JOHN. ! leave all meaner things •*• •*• To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (fince life can little more fuppjy "I ban jull to look about 'is and to die) Expatiate free o'er all...
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The Works of the British Poets, Volume 8

Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...abfolute fubjniffion due to providence, both as to our prefent and future ftate, ver. aSj, &c. to the end. 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 jrft to look about us, and to die), Expatiate free o'er all...
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Poems, Moral, Elegant and Pathetic: Vis. Essay on Man

1796 - 246 pages
...White Bird of the Tropic - - - 210 ESSAY ON MAN. ESSAY ON MAN. BY ALEXANDER POPE, EPISTLE I. -L\. WAKE, 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...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...tbe abi'olute lubmiilion due tt Providence, both as to our picfcnt and future ftatc. A WAKE, my Saint 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 this...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 384 pages
...apparent mortification, in the Apology prefixed to the laft edition of this View. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, 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 this...
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