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 ;... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 187by Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St, John ! "*Nh flowers promiscuous snoot Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample... | |
| Archibald Alison - Great Britain - 1852 - 550 pages
...Essay on Man are said to have been in great part suggested by his conversation. " Awake, my St John, leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride...scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." CHAP. Had Boliugbroke's... | |
| 1852 - 394 pages
...composition that I present these lines from Au Essay on Man, By Alexander Pope : " Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...more supply Than just to look about us, and to die,) CONSIDERATIONS ON INSANITY. Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without... | |
| Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...it contains a strongly emphatic word, fie falling inflection is necessary : Let us (since life ean little more supply Than just to look about us and...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. XI. jfn echo, or the repetition of a word or thought introductory to somz carticulars, requires the... | |
| Eli Bowen - Maps - 1852 - 456 pages
...OFF-HAND SKETCHES, PART I. tjj* Let us, since life can little else supply, Than just to look around us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene...maze, but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us roam this ample... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...emphatic word, the falling inflection is necessary : Let us (since life can little more supply Than jost to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. XI. Jin echo, or the repetition of a word or thought introductory to some particulars, requires the... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...this poem exhibiting Pope's power of adapting sonnd to sense. AN ESSAY ON MAN. AWAKE, my St. John ', leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride...of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Then just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...present and future state, ver 221, &c., to the end. A WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things 'L*- To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; 5 A mighty maze! but not without a plan:1 A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden,... | |
| Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1853 - 530 pages
...us, since life con little else supply, Than just to look around us, and to die, Expatiate free o "er all this 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 let us roam this ample... | |
| Joseph Antisell Allen - 1854 - 168 pages
...system of philosophy, in its bearings on immortality and generally, poetized. DAY-DREAMS. PA BT I. " Let us (since life can little more supply, Than just...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man." —POPE. A Butterfly bright, From grey morn till night, On pinions of Fancy I'll fly, With wings, oh... | |
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