 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
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...emphaiie word, the falling inflection is necessary : Let us (since life can little more supply Than iust to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. XI. An echo, or the repetition of a word or thought introductory to some particulars, requires the... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 526 pages
...us, since life ean 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. Togcther let us roam this ample... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, German - 1855 - 722 pages
...über baé mcnfd)lid)c ©ein, über unfere Suftanbc unb 93ejtiinnumgcn an^nfleflen : 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 etc. (Sa ifl fcbiver }u glauben, baß ein foldjer 23cfrart)t ungen fähiger иЛеп^ф аиф nur... | |
 | J. W. M. Breazeale - Indians of North America - 1842 - 266 pages
...THE AUTHOR. INTRODUCTION. " AWAKE" gentle reader! "leave all meaner thing: To low ambition, and toe pride of kings; Let us (since life can little more...maze ! but not without a plan; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit; Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | Wapora, inc, Bernard Baratz - Urban renewal - 1971 - 328 pages
...sincerest thanks for the time, effort, and enthusiasm they contributed to this study. FOREWORD t. • "Let us, (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man: A mighty maze! but not without a plan." Alexander Pope An Essay on Man This world, as Alexander Pope implies, is a mighty maze, constructed... | |
 | Peter France - History - 1992 - 268 pages
...first eight tensyllable lines become twelve twelve-syllable lines in his version: Awake, my St John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Sors de l'enchantement, Milord;... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. John! ; FaFP; (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...mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - Philosophy - 1993 - 296 pages
...that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: Awake, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
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