 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 474 Seiten
...difplays as a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfc by J. Sayer. [» EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner 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 COMMENTARY. THE... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 Seiten
...it difplays as a poem. This Eflay was tranflated into Latin verfe by J. Sayer. [" EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner 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 COMMENTARY. THE... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 Seiten
...and future Mate, c.fltt, &c. to the end. AWAKE, my St. Jolm! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! hut not without... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1807 - 238 Seiten
...Mr. Macintosh by his intimates, on account of bis HigKland enthusiasm. 4 " O why " O why, siace lite can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," should the few among us who understand its value, squander it so lavishly, and leave so little for... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 Seiten
...to our present and future state. \ WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things -,-*- To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Thau just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maae '... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 Seiten
...divides the line into two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breathe, as " Awake my St. John — leave all meaner things " To...free — o'er all this scene of man, " A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." Here the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 Seiten
...due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE I. A WAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things .**. To low...ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life ran little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of... | |
 | 1808 - 408 Seiten
...the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKF, my Saiut John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little mon supply Than just to look about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 464 Seiten
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, pr 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. Bis lordship was, however, so much taken up with the lower and more paltry concerns of politickt, that... | |
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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... 
