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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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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...and apparent mortification, in the apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. 10 EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another — Spectator. 9. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...of man ; , A mighty maze ! But not without a plan, — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe...
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john k skinner

agriculture horticulture - 1823 - 434 pages
...or, as the poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable, " Come, Christopher, and leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little else supply; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field,...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 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 free o'er all this scene of man ; i A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot : A...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...FRAYEK. BY ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.EPISTLE I. Of Ike Nature and Stale of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. 2 Together let us beat this ample...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...consists in a conformity to the order Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereon EPISTLE 1. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...! 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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 pages
...to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 326. on EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...all this scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...ST. JOHN LORD BOLINGBRORB. EPISTLE i. Of the Nature and State of Man Kith respect to the Universe. night the glass Of Galileo, less assur'd, observes...moon ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Delos bf Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language ...

Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 pages
...objects, we fona a picturesque and instructive metaphor. " Let us (since Hfe can Kttle else sapply, Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate...of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . A wfld, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; A garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together...
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Tracts in Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...RICHARD TWINING, Healer, AND ONE OF THE CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESENT VACANCY IN THE EAST INDIA DIRECTION. Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low...fruit : — Together let us beat this ample field — Try what the open, what the covert yield — The latent tracks, the giddy height explore. Of all...
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