 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 57by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...to the order of Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 326. on EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...all this scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...ST. JOHN LORD BOLINGBRORB. EPISTLE i. Of the Nature and State of Man Kith respect to the Universe. night the glass Of Galileo, less assur'd, observes...moon ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Delos bf Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;... | |
 | Peter France - History - 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...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. Sors de... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 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 - Architecture - 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...scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - Philosophy - 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... | |
 | Burton Raffel - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 192 pages
...hard to say, if greater want of skill / Appear in writing or in judging ill" and the latter begins "Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of kings." And we are startled neither when Matthew Arnold begins his "The Scholar Gipsy" with a much less direct... | |
 | Julien Offray de La Mettrie - Philosophy - 1994 - 100 pages
...the clouds in the atmosphere no more rapidly. 12. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) begins his Essay on Man, Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. In old age, that cold season when one is no longer fitted to give or receive other pleasures, what... | |
 | Dennis Todd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 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... | |
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