 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...religion, and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation. J. 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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...et pose la couronne sur le front vénérable de la vertu. ÉPÎTRES MORALES. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfc by J. Sayer. [» EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (fmce Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 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 kings ! Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look aboutais and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...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. EPIST. IVI This opening is awful, and commands... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breathe, as " 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... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 464 pages
...a divine if you like it, pr as a badineur, if you think that more effectual. * Awake^ my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Bis lordship was, however, so much taken up with the lower and more paltry concerns of politickt, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 526 pages
...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 ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...things To low ambition and tlie 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 ! bnt not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous... | |
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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,... 
