 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 Man - Page 1by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Helen Maria Williams - France - 1796 - 234 pages
...adapted for philofophical contemplation, and had there fufficient lei, fure to •• "Expatiate free on all this fcene of man, "'A mighty maze, but not without a plan." In this retreat be wrote the Patriot King. A company of French and Knglifh were dining with Lord Bolingbroke... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 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 ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
 | Universalism - 1799 - 394 pages
...following verfe, implying, Surely Tuch a brief exiltence ought not to be m alt: ft wretched. — " Since life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and to die." Pope. • So llifiyi , that it fcarcely allows time for a fecond look. This ftage orke pnlr, not an... | |
 | History - 1800 - 624 pages
...revelation. Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To Inw ambition and the pride of kings; Let иц fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look...about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fceneofman : A mighty maze 1 but not without a plan. Epif. !. ty, that no bufinefs or avocation етег... | |
 | William Mitford - English language - 1804 - 490 pages
...ambi|iion and | the pride | of kings; Let us, | since life | can Iit|tlc more | supply / / Than ,ufi | to look | about | us and | to die, Expa|tiate free | o'er all | this fcene | of man, f A mlgh|ty maze, | but no: \ without | a plan ; A wild, | where weeds | and flowers | promls|cuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 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 ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (fince Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the fubject... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...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 opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the fubjeft... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 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. * POPE , cssay on raati. JLiA raison voulut un jour parler le langage de la poésie :... | |
 | 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... | |
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