| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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 this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...absolute submit sion due to Providence, loth as to our present and future etatc. AWAKE my Saint John! ] Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free... | |
| George Gregory - Books and reading - 1809 - 384 pages
...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... | |
| Young lady - Psychology - 1809 - 204 pages
...and keep at a distance every thing of this sort. 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. What an inscrutable abyss is the knowledge of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...thing* 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 t but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and (lowers promiscuous... | |
| Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 662 pages
...accented : £ in van f inferno a' hit f'ofpofe ; e in vano S' armo d1 AJia, edi Libia ilpopol mifto, &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 muft never be mifplaced, may fometimes... | |
| 1811 - 550 pages
...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
...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, 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... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...it here and ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, 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... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 pages
...as a divine if you like it, or 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.) VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is. yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
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