| 1808 - 408 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| Young lady - 1809 - 204 páginas
...in whatever is hurtful, and compel them to remove and keep at a distance every thing of this sort. Let us (since life can little more supply. Than just...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 páginas
...ambition and the Pride of Kings. Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A. mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; [shoot; A WrM, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous Or Garden, templing with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 páginas
...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 low ambition — and the pride of kings; I,rt us — since lite can little more supply, Than just to look about us — and to (lie, Expatiate... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE L AWAKK, my St, John ! leave all meaner thing* To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us (since...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze t but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and (lowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner tiling^ I'o low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let vis (since life can little more supply Than just to look...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... | |
| 1811 - 550 páginas
...the declamation of boys. Who does not despise the caut of Pope when he sings thus to his patron ? " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." The character given of General Monk in the historical workis certainly not favourable, but we cannot... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...illustrations which it displays as a poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or... | |
| Giuseppe Baretti - 1813 - 446 páginas
...milord Saiut John Bolingbroke con questi otto versi. „ Avvake, my Saint John! Leave all meaner thingi To low ambition, and the pride of Kings Let us ( since...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... | |
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