 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pagine
...it 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 the pride of Kings. Let us (fince Life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pagine
...will be in danger of going out of the world before they know any thing of it. Life (says Mr. Pope) can little more supply, Than just to look about us, and to die. Is it not therefore the duty of a father to give his son an opportunity of looking about him as soon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pagine
...and future Mate, c.fltt, &c. to the end. AWAKE, my St. Jolm! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! hut not without... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pagine
...to our present and future state. \ WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things -,-*- To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Thau just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maae '... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1807 - 238 pagine
...Mr. Macintosh by his intimates, on account of bis HigKland enthusiasm. 4 " O why " O why, siace lite can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," should the few among us who understand its value, squander it so lavishly, and leave so little for... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pagine
...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...free — o'er all this scene of man, " A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." Here the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pagine
...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...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; A garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pagine
...state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Than jnst to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forhidden fruit. Together... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pagine
...the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKF, my Saiut John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little mon supply Than just to look about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pagine
...due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things .**. To low...ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life ran little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of... | |
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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 ;... 
