 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 464 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pàgines
...consequence of ;iil, the absolute submission due to Providence, both at to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and tlie pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die)... | |
 | Young lady - 1809 - 204 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pàgines
...the absolute submit sion due to Providence, loth as to our present and future etatc. AWAKE my Saint [etc.] Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pàgines
...resignation to it here and ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, 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 promisc'ous shoot, Or... | |
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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... 
