 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 Seiten
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly Uey succeeded one another.— Spectator. 9 Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan. — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head nnmellow'd, but his judgment ripe... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...consequence of all, the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low...ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life cau little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...ST. JOHN LORD BOLINGBROKE. EPISTLE I. Of the Nature and State of Man with respeet to the Universe. ` (sinee life ean little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die). Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...absiiiute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 2s1, to the end. AwAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let ue (since life can little more supply Than .inst to look about ue, and to die) Expatiate free o'er... | |
 | 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. (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...begins the Essay on Man with an exactly similar testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat... | |
 | 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...die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
 | 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, what... | |
 | Burton Raffel - 1994 - 192 Seiten
...hard to say, if greater want of skill / Appear in writing or in judging ill" and the latter begins "Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of kings." And we are startled neither when Matthew Arnold begins his "The Scholar Gipsy" with a much less direct... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 Seiten
...in his effort to get a purchase on the problem of the imagination, poetry, and ethical obligations: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts,... | |
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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... 
