 | 560 pages
...suitably, the effects of all these mixed together?" 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 mazo ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot,... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 pages
...compose. PoP*, LESSON XVII. EXAMPLES OF PARENTHESES. LET ns (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. POPE* in a word, (for far behind his worth all... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 500 pages
...as a divine if you like it, or 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. VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | William Creech - 1815 - 440 pages
...conscience; since, I say, all these things are so, 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. Yes, let us pursue the innocent delights which... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable. "JCome, Christopher, and leave aU meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us since life can little eke supply ; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes ; • • " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | 1818 - 708 pages
...consequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes : " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...constantly they succeeded one another. — Spectator, 9. 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.— Pope; 10. His years are young, but his experience... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...thin; To low ambition, and the pride of king*. Let us, (since life can little more supply, Than j ust to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not 'without a pl»n: A wild, where weeds and fkrw'rs promisc'ous... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...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 can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Cxpatiate free o'er all... | |
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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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild,... 
