 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
 | J. W. M. Breazeale - 1842 - 266 pages
...THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION. " AWAKE" gentle reader! "leave all meaner thing: To low ambition, and toe pride of kings; Let us (since life can little more...forbidden fruit; Together let us beat this ample field; Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracks, the giddy heights explore, Of all who... | |
 | Wapora, inc, Bernard Baratz - 1971 - 328 pages
...sincerest thanks for the time, effort, and enthusiasm they contributed to this study. FOREWORD t. • "Let us, (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man: A mighty maze! but not without a plan." Alexander Pope An Essay on Man This world, as Alexander Pope implies, is a mighty maze, constructed... | |
 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 pages
...amplifier; Pope's first eight tensyllable lines become twelve twelve-syllable lines in his version: Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low...promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Sors de l'enchantement, Milord; laisse au vulgaire Le séduisant espoir d'un bien imaginaire: Fuis... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...And gladly praise the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 ot stirred. (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 pages
...begins the Essay on Man with an exactly similar testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 pages
...should have identified that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: Awake, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low...die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 pages
...in his effort to get a purchase on the problem of the imagination, poetry, and ethical obligations: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts,... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...announced by Pope in his introduction to the inimitable Essay on Man : — " Let us (since life can \\jfie more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of mail ; A mighty maze ; but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and Sowers promiscuous shoot, Or... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 8889 An Essay on Man r) Sithe off cure language he was the lodesterre....gold or gret richesse. LYLYJohn c.1554-1606 6653 8890 An Essay on Man Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 pages
...no way pornographic, the poem uses obscenity to attack Pope's sanctimonious philosophy. First Pope: Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low...maze! 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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