 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 - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...illustrations which it displays as a poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. 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 promiscuous shoot, Or... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - 1813 - 446 Seiten
...milord Saiut John Bolingbroke con questi otto versi. „ Avvake, my Saint John! Leave all meaner thingi To low ambition, and the pride of Kings Let us ( since...Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate fr«e o' er all this Scene of Man; A mighty Maze? but not without a plan; A Wild, where weedsand flowers... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...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 - 1814 - 222 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1814 - 424 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1814 - 500 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1820 - 774 Seiten
...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 - 590 Seiten
...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... | |
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