 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...UNIVERSE. AWAEE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low amhition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look...flowers promiscuous shoot Or garden, tempting with forhidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ;... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1848 - 462 pages
...have been in great part suggested by his conversation. " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner thing! To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let as, since...scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." Had Bolingbroke's... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1848 - 456 pages
...conversation. "Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner thing) To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little more supply, Than just to look...scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. But vindicate the ways of God to man." Had Bolingbroke's... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to cfie) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty...covert yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,... | |
 | 1902 - 664 pages
...: — 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...scene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. Bolingbroke died childless in 1751, and was buried in Battersea Church. It is probable that on the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...LL:.. A WAKE , 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...! but not without a plan; A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; Or Garden , tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...the nature of pleasure and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another. 7. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. 8. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send; He gave to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : Let us (since life can littlH more supply Than just to look about us, and to die)...mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weed* and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, templing with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...on the nature of pleasure and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; Heaven did a recompense as largely send ; He gave to misery... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1851 - 760 pages
...all this is true of man in the abstract as he has viewed him ; but had we the genius of Pope, " To expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty...A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot" — we might show, that after passing over these " finer nerves and vessels," there is still an " ample... | |
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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,... 
