 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
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...resignation to it here and ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, my St. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...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 promisc'ous shoot, Or... | |
 | Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...rose, And, join'd, this intellectual scene compose. PoP*, LESSON XVII. EXAMPLES OF PARENTHESES. LET ns (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. POPE* in a word, (for far behind his worth all the praises that I now bestow) rle is complete in feature... | |
 | 560 pages
...thus furnished from knowing both naturally and suitably, the effects of all these mixed together?" Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty mazo ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or gardens tempting... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...nature of pleasure and pain in general, snd how constantly they succeeded one another. Spectator. 9. Let us (since life can little more Supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free, o'ar all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan Pope. 10. His years are young,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 pages
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, or 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.) VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is. yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 500 pages
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, or 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. VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | England - 1820 - 774 pages
...poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable. "JCome, Christopher, and leave aU meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us since life can little eke supply ; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field.... | |
 | 1818 - 486 pages
...who was con^ sequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invok.es : '" N " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | Great Britain - 1818 - 590 pages
...was con-i sequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes ; • • " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...state, ver. 281. to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. Joho ! leave all meaner things To low amhition, and the pride of kings : Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! hot nut without a... | |
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