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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! "
An Account of the Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by ... - Page 779
by Adam Clarke - 1839
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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) D Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where...
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The Truth and Safety of the Christian Religion Deduced from Reason and ...

Daniel Bellamy - Apologetics - 1789 - 512 pages
...The thought is fomewhat fimilar to that of our own great poet, in his Eflay on' man. SlNCE LIFE CAN LITTLE MORE SUPPLY, THAN JUST TO LOOK ABOUT us AND TO DIE. POPE. VERSE XIII. XIV. WHEN I SAY, MY BED SHALL COMFORT ME ; MY COUCH SHALL EASE MY COMPLAINT: THEN...
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...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, where weeds...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...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 ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild where...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...St. John ! leave all meatier 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. EPIST. IVI This...
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Poésie, versification [etc

Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...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. * POPE , cssay on raati. JLiA raison voulut un jour parler...
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Miscellaneous: Covent-Garden journal. Essay on nothing. Charge delivered to ...

Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...will be in danger of going out of the world before they know any thing of it. Life (says Mr. Pope) can little more supply, Than just to look about us, and to die. Is it not therefore the duty of a father to give his son an opportunity of looking about him as soon...
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Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a ..., Volume 3

Anne MacVicar Grant - Authors, English - 1807 - 238 pages
...Macintosh by his intimates, on account of bis HigKland enthusiasm. 4 " O why " O why, siace lite can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die," should the few among us who understand its value, squander it so lavishly, and leave so little for...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1

George Gregory - Books and reading - 1808 - 352 pages
...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 — yet not without a plan." Here...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! bnt not without a plan ; A wild where weeds...
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