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... Annual Registerherausgegeben von - 1800Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, &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 look about us and to die) Expatiate free... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 Seiten
...submission clue to Provideuce, both AS to our present and future .state. EPISTLE FIRST. AWAKE, my Saint 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... | |
| John Watts - 1857 - 210 Seiten
...is found in the opening of the poem, where the poet uses the plural in speaking of Bolingbroke — ' Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. ***** Laugh when we must, be candid when you can, And vindicate the ways of God to man.' This... | |
| 1857 - 602 Seiten
...the metaphysics and the philosophy. He is imperishably connected with it by the opening couplet : — "Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Whatever his influence with Voltaire, it was almost unbounded with Pope, who avows a belief... | |
| 1857 - 654 Seiten
...the metaphysics and the philosophy. He is impcrishably connected with it by the opening couplet : — "Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Whatever his influence with Voltaire, it was almost unbounded with Pope, who awows a belief... | |
| Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 Seiten
...distorted Lockeian philosophy of the Essay on Man at Twickenham. After all, the Essay was dedicated to him. Awake, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. . . But 1732 was a little late in the day. What do the English remember of Queen Anne? First,... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...And gladly praise the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 ot stirred. Kings. Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free... | |
| Peter France - 1992 - 268 Seiten
...amplifier; Pope's 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... | |
| Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 Seiten
...should have identified 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... | |
| Julien Offray de La Mettrie - 1994 - 100 Seiten
...the clouds in the atmosphere no more rapidly. 12. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) begins his Essay on Man, Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. In old age, that cold season when one is no longer fitted to give or receive other pleasures,... | |
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