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 biblical museum - Page 74by James Comper Gray - 1872Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope - 1736 - 64 pages
...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 Scene of Man ; <; A mighty Maze ! but not without a Plan ( A Wild, where Weeds and Flow'rs promifcuous (hoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden Fruit. Together... | |
| 1797 - 658 pages
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| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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 wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...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. EPIST. IVI This opening is awful, and commands the attention of the reader. The word awake has peculiar... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Than jnst 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 wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forhidden fruit. Together... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...instructive metaphor. " Let us (since life can little else' 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 wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; A garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Young lady - 1809 - 204 pages
...thing of this sort. 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. What an inscrutable abyss is the knowledge of the incomprehensible Author of Nature, who, in so stupendous... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...Pride of Kings. Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., * - ; [shoot; A WrM, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous Or Garden, templing with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...pride of Kings. Let vis (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 wild, where weedsand flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Giuseppe Baretti - 1813 - 446 pages
...us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate fr«e o' er all this Scene of Man; A mighty Maze? but not without a plan; A Wild, where weedsand flowers promiscuous slioot; Or Garden tcmpting with forbidden fruit. ., Che... | |
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