 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 ;...  An Essay on Man - Page 1by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1776 - 52 pages
...and the. pr.ide of Kings, L.et us (fincc Life .can little more fupply ../ Than juft to look »bout us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; • f. A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot»... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...A WAKE, my St. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (fmee Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this feene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifeuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! .my ST. JOHN 1 leave all meaner thing* To low ambition and the pride of lyings, J^ct us (fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'#r all this fcene of man ; t ,A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...my St. John ! leave all meaner titings •** To low ambition, and the pride of Kings, Let us (fmce Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; c A mighty ma2e ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous fhoot : Or... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 pages
...revelation. , I. Awake *, my St. John ! leave all meaner thing! To low ambition, and the pride of kings ; Let us (fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) \ " * Johnfon begini a poem thus Wake ! friend, from forth thy lethargy R 2 Expatiate txpatiate free... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...his head at Doftor 5— — t. IBID, $.t$J I 3 MAN. MAN. AWAKE, my St. Join ! leave all meaner thing* To low ambition, and the pride of KingsLet us (fince...fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds, and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Christian Felix Weisse - 1785 - 396 pages
...*) Awake my St. John ! leane all meaner tilings To low ambition, and the pride of kings Lotus (since life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate free over all this fcene of man : A mighty maze! but not without a plan j &c. fd)on erinnert *), ba§ bie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN t leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us (fince Life can little more fupply Than juft to...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man j S A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuoas (hoot: Or... | |
 | Books - 1789 - 754 pages
...' — whofe great and only figh, 4 I? juft to breathe, be fparing, and to die.' Pope write*, " — fince life can little more fupply, " Than juft to look about us, and to die." At p. 76. ' The frugal crone Grieves at the candle's half-extinguifh'd beam, Spares the long fnufF,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...pltafnre and pain in general, and how conllantly they fucceeded one another. Sftftator. 9. Let us (fmc-e life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us 'and to ciie)^ Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man ; A mi^lny maze ! but not without a pla'i. . Po/e.... | |
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