 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 59by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : Let us (sinee life ean seene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiseuous... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...Ex-patiate, from expatior, I rove about without any prescribed limits ; to enlarge upon in language. " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, " A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." Pope. Ex-pect, expecto, (see SPECIo, p. 37,) I look for. To look far, is a species of waiting, drawn... | |
 | Going - 1825 - 662 pages
...departure of the giddy trio, which was then broken by Mr. Irwin. " How lamentable is it," said he, " when Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die." to observe any of such precious hours wasted on vanities of which the certain end is vexation of spirit."... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...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...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man :" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan !" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man:" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan!" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breath, as "Awake my St. John — leave all meaner things To low ambition — and the pride of kings...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... | |
 | 1827 - 460 pages
...— since in the dying words of Laplace, " The known is little, but the unknown is immense," and " Since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die," it is a question of paramount importance, how in this short period education can be made to conduce... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...our present and future state, ver. 231, to the end. EPISTLE X. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot Or, gardens tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
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