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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,... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 218
by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pages
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...them on the side of religion, and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelationT\ 1. Awake,* my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. EPIST. IVI • This opening is awful, and commands the attention of the reader. The word awake has...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation. I. Awake,* my St. John ! leave all meatier things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ; Let...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. EPIST. IVI This opening is awful, and commands the attention of the reader. The word awake has peculiar...
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Poésie, versification [etc

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...rapine qui brave les lois, et pose la couronne sur le front vénérable de la vertu. ÉPÎTRES MORALES. Awake , my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...to die , Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man. * POPE , cssay on raati. JLiA raison voulut un jour parler le langage de la poésie : e Ile fit une...
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Poétique anglaise, Volume 1

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...pose la couronne sur le front vénérable de la vertu. EPiTRES MORALES. Awake , my St. John! leaye all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of...since life can little more supply Than just to look aboutais and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man. * i Popi, essay on man. •fi '. '...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

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...flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forhidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what they open, what the covert yield ;...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - 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,...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and tlie pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! bnt not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

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...
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Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of Sensations

Young lady - 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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