 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 the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 59by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 464 pages
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, pr as a badineur, if you think that more effectual. * Awake^ my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Bis lordship was, however, so much taken up with the lower and more paltry concerns of politickt, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...consequence of ;iil, the absolute submission due to Providence, both at to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and tlie pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die)... | |
 | Young lady - 1809 - 204 pages
...in whatever is hurtful, and compel them to remove and keep at a distance every thing of this sort. Let us (since life can little more supply. Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. What an inscrutable abyss is the knowledge of the incomprehensible Author of Nature, who, in so stupendous... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pages
...divides the line into two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breathe, as Awake my St. John — -leave all meaner things To low ambition — and the pride of kings; I,rt us — since lite can little more supply, Than just to look about us — and to (lie, Expatiate... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...the absolute submit sion due to Providence, loth as to our present and future etatc. AWAKE my Saint [etc.] Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE L AWAKK, my St, John ! leave all meaner thing* To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us (since...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze t but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and (lowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner tiling^ I'o low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let vis (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weedsand flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...the declamation of boys. Who does not despise the caut of Pope when he sings thus to his patron ? " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." The character given of General Monk in the historical workis certainly not favourable, but we cannot... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...illustrations which it displays as a poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...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 shoot, Or... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - 1813 - 446 pages
...milord Saiut John Bolingbroke con questi otto versi. „ Avvake, my Saint John! Leave all meaner thingi To low ambition, and the pride of Kings Let us ( since...Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate fr«e o' er all this Scene of Man; A mighty Maze? but not without a plan; A Wild, where weedsand flowers... | |
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