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... Annual Registerherausgegeben von - 1800Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 Seiten
...invokes also in the beginning of the Essay on Man, in a strain of friendly expostulation and regard. " Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Their sentiments for each other have all the appearance, all the warm and affectionate expression... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 Seiten
...invokes also in the beginning of the Essay on Man, in a strain of friendly expostulation and regard. " Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Their sentiments for each other have all the appearance, all the warm and affectionate expressions... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. trembling year is unconfirm'd, And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chil kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate... | |
| Asa Humphrey - 1847 - 238 Seiten
...in rhyme. The following is another example, and from one of our best poets. as also the foregoing. " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." — Pope. On this couplet, there is not so regular a correspondence as is common from the same... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...that can be taken, and the artful turns that can be given to those passages, to place them on the side of religion, and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation. How could Pope, in the letter which he wrote to Racine, the son, 1742, venture to say, that his opinions... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1848 - 460 Seiten
...thoughts in the " Essay on Man" are said to have been in great part suggested by his conversation. " 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... | |
| H. Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 248 Seiten
...Taney, and St. John, are pronounced as though written Chumley, Beecham, Tolliver, Tawny and Sinjun. " Awake, my St. John ! Leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." Marrow-bones. — Marie, as used by Sir Thomas More, in Marie-bones ("then down he fel upon... | |
| 1902 - 664 Seiten
...Atterbury, to whom Pope dedicated his fine poem 'An Essay on Man,' which has this [altered] address : — 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... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 can little more supply Than just to look about us and to cfie) Expatiate... | |
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