 | Joseph Warton - 1806
...religion, and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation. J. 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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806
...et pose la couronne sur le front vénérable de la vertu. ÉPÎTRES MORALES. 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806
...a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfc by J. Sayer. [» EPISTLE I. A 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 us and to die) Expatiate COMMENTARY. THE... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806
...pose la couronne sur le front vénérable de la vertu. EPiTRES MORALES. Awake , my St. John! leaye all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings ! Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look aboutais and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806
...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. EPIST. IVI This opening is awful, and commands... | |
 | George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808
...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 ; " Let us — since life can little more supply, " Than just to look about us— and to die, "•Expatiate free... | |
 | 1808
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808
...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 ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808
...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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! bnt not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous... | |
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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; A wild,... 
