 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 pages
...him for it, as a divine if you like it, or 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.) VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is. yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable. "JCome, Christopher, and leave aU meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us since life can little eke supply ; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field.... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...con-i sequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes ; • • " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | 1818 - 486 pages
...was con^ sequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invok.es : '" N " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...state, ver. 281. to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. Joho ! leave all meaner things To low amhition, and the pride of kings : Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look ahout us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! hot nut without a... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 718 pages
...else 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 and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; A garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open,... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another. — Spectator, 9. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...to die) Expatiate free, o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan.— Pope; 10. His years are young, but his experience old*... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...thin; To low ambition, and the pride of king*. Let us, (since life can little more supply, Than j ust to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not 'without a pl»n: A wild, where weeds and fkrw'rs promisc'ous shool Or garden... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...pleasure and pain in general, and kow constantly they succeeded wie another. Sficaalvr. 9. Let us ( j'.nce life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) lixpatiiue free, o'er a'l this scene of man J A mighty raaic ! But not without a plan.— — Pope.... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...in general, and bow constantly they succeeded cue another. — Spectator. 9. Let us (• .not: 'iiV can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expiate free, o'er all this scene of man : A mighty n-uze ! but not without^a plan. — Pope. ^ 10.... | |
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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... 
