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 Works of Alexander Pope: Moral essays - Page 4by Alexander Pope - 1757Full view - About this book
| English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...fubmiffion due to Providence, both as to our prefent and future ftate, ver. 281, &c. to the end. EPISTLE EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John! leave all meaner things...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; J A mighty ma2e ! but not without a plan : A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous moot ; Or... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...prcftnt and future ftatc. EPISTLE I A WAKE, my Saint John! leave all meaner ^* things To low ambiiion nt extracts ixpatiate free o'er all this fccnc of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds... | |
| William Creech - English literature - 1791 - 318 pages
...fcience ; fince, I fay, all thefe things are fo, Let us, Cnce life c»n little more fupply. Than jufi to look about us and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plant YES, let us purfue the innocent delights which the book and... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...things To low ambition and the pride of king». Let us (lince life can little more lupply Than julr. to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuon* Or garden, tempting... | |
| William Creech - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1791 - 346 pages
...completely happy, who neither fells ftock nor his confcience; fince, I fay, all thefe things are fo, Let us, fince life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and lo die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plan. YES, let... | |
| Adam Smith - Economists - 1795 - 402 pages
...•> E in van I. inferno a. lui s. oppofe ; e In vano S' anno a" Afia, e di Libia il popol mijio, &c. Let us, fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die, &c. Both in Englifh and in Italian Verfe, an accent, though it mufl never be mifplaced, may fometimes... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (fince life can little more fupply Than jrft to look about us, and to die), Expatiate free o'er all this fccne of man ; A mighty maze '. but not without a plan : [(hoot; A wild, where weeds and flowers prnmifcuous... | |
| 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
...-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...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot; Or garden,... | |
| 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... | |
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