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 ;... Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations - Page 1051877 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another. — Spectator, 9. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan.— Pope; 10. His years are young, but his experience old* His head onnaellow'd, but his judgment ripe ; And,... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...thin; To low ambition, and the pride of king*. Let us, (since life can little more supply, Than j ust to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er...this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not 'without a pl»n: A wild, where weeds and fkrw'rs promisc'ous shool Or garden tempting- with forbidden fruit.... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...et se soumettre à la Providence. AN ESSAY ON MAN. !.*»•» EPISTLE I. AN ESSAY ON MAN. EPISTLE I 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 flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or Garden , tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...résigner et se soumettre à la Providence. AN ESSAY ON MAN. EPISTLE I. AN ESSAY ON MAN. EPISTLE I. , my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or Garden , tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Cxpatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...to our present and future state , 273, &c, A 9. AWAKE my St. Joas ! leave all meaner things To lew ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life...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 flowers promiscuous shoot : Or... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...and apparent mortification, in the apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. 10 EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...force and apparent mortification, in the apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...consequence of all the absolute submission dne to Providence, both as to our present and future state. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...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. Together... | |
| 1853 - 640 pages
...lettres ; and, not to multiply instances, Horsley was mighty both in mathematics and divinity. Then " Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," let us increase our knowledge, cultivate our virtue, (I mean in the Christian, not in the heathen,... | |
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