 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 57by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...and apparent mortification, in the apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. 10 EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...force and apparent mortification, in the apology prefixed to the last edition of this View. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...consequence of all the absolute submission dne to Providence, both as to our present and future state. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...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. Together... | |
 | 1853 - 640 pages
...lettres ; and, not to multiply instances, Horsley was mighty both in mathematics and divinity. Then " Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," let us increase our knowledge, cultivate our virtue, (I mean in the Christian, not in the heathen,... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 pages
...longer than usual, for in my state I can scarcely hope ever to see it again. But if, as Pope says, Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die, I certainly have no time to lose. 7th. My flight has been necessarily too rapid to allow any time for... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another — Spectator. 9. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...of man ; , A mighty maze ! But not without a plan, — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe... | |
 | agriculture horticulture - 1823 - 434 pages
...or, as the poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable, " Come, Christopher, and leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little else supply; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 716 pages
...these objects, we form a picturesque and instructive metaphor. " Let us (since life can little else supply, Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; i A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot : A... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...FRAYEK. BY ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.EPISTLE I. Of Ike Nature and Stale of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. 2 Together... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
...consists in a conformity to the order Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereon EPISTLE 1. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
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