 | Stephen Weston - European literature - 1824 - 238 pages
...nectareous dew that diffuses itself in a softly dropping shower. ESSAY ON MAN. Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings. ENSAIO SOBRE O HOMEM. Desperto Milord deixe os vaos cuidados, A vulgar ambipao de Reis vaidosos. There... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...end. AN. ESSAY ON MAN: WITH THE COMMENTARY OF WILLIAM WARBURTON, DD EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. COMMENTARY. THE opening of this Poem [in fifteen lines] is taken up in giving an account of the subject... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...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 wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
 | Stephen Weston - 1824 - 318 pages
...nectareous dew that diffuses itself in a softly dropping shower. ESSAY ON MAN. Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings. ENSAIO SOBRE O HOMEM. Desperto Milord deixe os va5s cuidados, A vulgar ambicao de Reis vaidosos. There... | |
 | J. W. M. Breazeale - Indians of North America - 1842 - 266 pages
...thing: To low ambition, and toe 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 where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,... | |
 | Wapora, inc, Bernard Baratz - Urban renewal - 1971 - 328 pages
...they contributed to this study. FOREWORD t. • "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." Alexander Pope An Essay on Man This world, as... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. John! ; FaFP; (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Peter France - History - 1992 - 268 pages
...first eight tensyllable lines become twelve twelve-syllable lines in his version: 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... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - Architecture - 1992 - 414 pages
...testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: 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, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot,... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - Philosophy - 1993 - 296 pages
...that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: 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... | |
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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,... 
