 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 2s1, to the end. AwAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let ue (since life can little more supply Than .inst to look about ue, and to die) Expatiate free o'er... | |
 | Going - 1825 - 662 lehte
...departure of the giddy trio, which was then broken by Mr. Irwin. " How lamentable is it," said he, " when Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die." to observe any of such precious hours wasted on vanities of which the certain end is vexation of spirit."... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 lehte
...praise the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. ; FaBV; FaFP; (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 lehte
...begins the Essay on Man with an exactly similar testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 lehte
...identified that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: Awake, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition and...die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
 | Julien Offray de La Mettrie - 1994 - 100 lehte
...the atmosphere no more rapidly. 12. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) begins his Essay on Man, Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. In old age, that cold season when one is no longer fitted to give or receive other pleasures, what... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 lehte
...in his effort to get a purchase on the problem of the imagination, poetry, and ethical obligations: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracts,... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 lehte
...announced by Pope in his introduction to the inimitable Essay on Man : — " Let us (since life can \\jfie more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of mail ; A mighty maze ; but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and Sowers promiscuous shoot, Or... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1997 - 146 lehte
...vains. » E in van 1" interne a'lui s'oppose; e in vano S'armô d'Asia, e di Libia il popol misto...' Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...2 Dans la poésie anglaise comme dans l'italienne, un accent, bien qu'il ne doive jamais être... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 lehte
...begins by inviting St John to what looks to be a meditative experience in the literal sense. He is to "leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of Kings" (1.1-2), to return to the ample fields, to philosophical exploration, from the baser concerns about... | |
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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... 
