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 ;... Notes and Queries - Seite 641902Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 Seiten
...to our prefent and future ftate, ver. 281, etc. to the end. ftrrcZX. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN t 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 free o'er all... | |
| Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 Seiten
...found. *, " The thought is fomewhat fimilar to that of our own great poet, in his Eflay on' man. SlNCE LIFE CAN LITTLE MORE SUPPLY, THAN JUST TO LOOK ABOUT us AND TO DIE. POPE. VERSE XIII. XIV. WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME ; MY COUCH SHALL EASE MY COMPLAINT: THEN... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 398 Seiten
...to Providence, both as to our prefent and future ftate, ver. 281, &c. to the end. EPISTLE EPISTLE I. AWAKE, 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 free o'er all... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 Seiten
...things To low ambition and the pride of king». Let us (lince life can little more lupply Than julr. to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuon*... | |
| William Creech - 1791 - 318 Seiten
...fcience ; fince, I fay, all thefe things are fo, Let us, Cnce life c»n little more fupply. Than jufi to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plant YES, let us purfue the innocent delights which... | |
| James Roach - 1793 - 274 Seiten
...more agreeable. AK ' • ' ESSAY ON ' MA N. '•• ' * . By. ALEXANDER POPE, Eft. 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 fuppjy "I ban jull to look about 'is and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 Seiten
...abfolute fubjniffion due to providence, both as to our prefent and future ftate, ver. aSj, &c. to the end. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (fince life can little more fupply Than jrft to look about us, and to die), Expatiate free o'er all... | |
| 1796 - 246 Seiten
...White Bird of the Tropic - - - 210 ESSAY ON MAN. ESSAY ON MAN. BY ALEXANDER POPE, EPISTLE I. -L\. 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 free o'er all this... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 Seiten
...tbe abi'olute lubmiilion due tt Providence, both as to our picfcnt and future ftatc. A WAKE, my Saint 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 free o'er all this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1797 - 384 Seiten
...apparent mortification, in the Apology prefixed to the laft edition of this View. 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 free o'er all this... | |
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