 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 218by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly Uey succeeded one another.— Spectator. 9 Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan. — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head nnmellow'd, but his judgment ripe... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...(since life can little more supply Than .inst to look about ue, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all thie scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan...garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let ш beat this ample field, "Cry what the open, what the covert yield ; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...consequence of all, the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life cau little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...ST. JOHN LORD BOLINGBROKE. EPISTLE I. Of the Nature and State of Man with respeet to the Universe. ` (sinee life ean little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die). Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us )>eat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights,... | |
 | Legacy - 1827 - 332 pages
...divides the line into two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breath, 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." In these lines the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...submission due to Providence both as to our present and future state, ver. 231, to the end. EPISTLE X. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot Or, gardens tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKK, / / ; Эг garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open,... | |
 | 1830 - 658 pages
...the earth ; or is it of some antient stream that he has succeeded in tracing the undoubted pedigree ? To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us, since...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...BY ALEXANDER POPE, i:,SQ. EPISTLE I. Of the Nature and State of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...more supply Than just to look about us and to die) x Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where... | |
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