 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 574 pages
...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...to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and fiow'rs pronirfcuoui Or Garden,... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...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... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...adduced, is punctually correfpondent with that of the moft fagacious- fubje£t of the narrative. Ver. 3. Life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us, and to die. Much in the fame manner Denham, Of Prudence : Learn to live well, that thou may'ft die fo too : To... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...the absolute submission due 'to Providence, both as to our present and future state. 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... | |
 | Universalism - 1799 - 394 pages
...following verfe, implying, Surely Tuch a brief exiltence ought not to be m alt: ft wretched. — " Since life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and to die." Pope. • So llifiyi , that it fcarcely allows time for a fecond look. This ftage orke pnlr, not an... | |
 | History - 1800 - 624 pages
...revelation. Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To Inw ambition and the pride of kings; Let иц fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look...about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fceneofman : A mighty maze 1 but not without a plan. Epif. !. ty, that no bufinefs or avocation етег... | |
 | William Mitford - English language - 1804 - 490 pages
...ambi|iion and | the pride | of kings; Let us, | since life | can Iit|tlc more | supply / / Than ,ufi | to look | about | us and | to die, Expa|tiate free | o'er all | this fcene | of man, f A mlgh|ty maze, | but no: \ without | a plan ; A wild, | where weeds | and flowers | promls|cuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...difplays as a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfe by J. Sayer. [" EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and...fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the fubject... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...of religion, and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation. ]. 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... | |
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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 ;... 
