 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...&c. to the end. 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 die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or gardens... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...Man j J A mighty main ' bnt not without a plan : A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous /hoot Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what 'he opcr, what the covert yield ; 1 The latent trails, the giddy heights, explore Of all who hliniily... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...iupply Than juft :э look about us and to die) ïxpat'ate free о'лг ail this fcene of Man ; 5 Л mighty maze ' but not without a plan : A Wild, where weeds and flowers promifcuous (boot; Or Gar .' i-, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let ц« beat this ample field»... | |
 | William Mitford - 1804 - 490 pages
...ambi|iion and | the pride | of kings; Let us, | since life | can Iit|tlc more | supply / / Than ,ufi | to look | about | us and | to die, Expa|tiate free | o'er all | this fcene | of man, f A mlgh|ty maze, | but no: \ without | a plan ; A wild, | where weeds | and flowers... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...revelation. ]. 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...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. EPIST. IVI ' This opening is awful, and commands the attention of the reader. The word awake has peculiar... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...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 die , Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man. * POPE , cssay on raati. JLiA raison voulut un jour parler le langage de la poésie : e Ile fit une... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...Maintenon, after the death of his firft wife. Of A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous moot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together...ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 10 The latent tra&s, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or fightlefs foar ; Eye... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 pages
...Maintenon, after the death of his firft. wife. Of A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together...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 ; Eye... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...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... | |
 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - 1806 - 360 pages
...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 scene of man. * i Popi, essay on man. •fi '. '... | |
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