 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 ;...  The British poets, including translations - Page 32de British poets - 1822Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1778 - 124 pages
...ORATORS* OR, Nine Evenings Entertainment. WITH OBSERVATIONS; t MI! !•: 7, I, ISHE n WITH CUTS; - Let us beat this ample Field, Try what the Open, what the Covert yield ; Eye Nature's Walks, fhoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rile. The THIRD... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'#r all this fcene of man ; t ,A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...where weeds and flowers promifcuous fhoot : Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together Jet us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! , 10 The latent trafts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or fightlefs foar ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 pages
...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 free o'er all this fcene of Man ; e A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous... | |
 | John Hope - 1780 - 376 pages
... ' Jfc'O I CURIOUS AND COMIC • * • * MISSELLANEOUS WORKS, i • STARTED Together let us beat this ample Field, Try what the Open, what the Covert yield; ;3'be latent Tract*, the giddy Heights, explore, "Gf all who blindly creeps, or fightlefs foar ; Eye... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...meaner thing* To low ambition, and the pride of KingsLet us (fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds, and flow'rs promifcuous... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1787 - 396 pages
...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 free o'er all this fcene of Man j S A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuoas... | |
 | Daniel Bellamy - 1789 - 512 pages
...found. *, " The thought is fomewhat fimilar to that of our own great poet, in his Eflay on' man. SlNCE LIFE CAN LITTLE MORE SUPPLY, THAN JUST TO LOOK ABOUT us AND TO DIE. POPE. VERSE XIII. XIV. WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME ; MY COUCH SHALL EASE MY COMPLAINT: THEN... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...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 free o'er all this fcene of Man ; J A mighty ma2e ! but not without a plan : A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die, ixpatiate free o'er all this fccnc of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcxion* JrGardcn, tempting with forbidden fruit, [fhoot} Together let us beat this ample... | |
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