 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 trang
...hereon EPISTLE 1. 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...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 trang
...on EPISTLE I. 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...all this scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 trang
...objects, we fona a picturesque and instructive metaphor. " Let us (since Hfe can Kttle else sapply, Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan . A wfld, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ; A garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 trang
...the Universe. Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. he moon ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Delos bf Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 trang
...of his Lordship ; and that the only merit of Pope was that of transferring it into verse. In writing Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, COMMENTARY. The Poet tells us next (line 16th) with what design he wrote, viz. " To vindicate the ways... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 trang
...of his Lordship ; and that the only merit of Pope was that of transferring it into verse. In writing Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die, COMMENTARY. The Poet tells us next (line 16th) with what design he wrote, viz. " To vindicate the ways... | |
 | Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 trang
...INDIA DIRECTION. 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...scene of man — A mighty maze, but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit : —... | |
 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 trang
...nature of pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly Uey succeeded one another.— Spectator. 9 Let us (since life can little more supply Than just...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan. — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old ; His head nnmellow'd, but his judgment ripe... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 trang
...my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life cau little more supply Than just to look about us and...scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 trang
...St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : Let us (sinee life ean seene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiseuous... | |
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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! but not without a plan; A wild,... 
