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 ;... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Página 381editado por - 1769Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...WAKE, my Saint John! leave all meaner ^* things To low ambiiion and the pride of Kings. Let us, fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die, ixpatiate free o'er all this fccnc of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds... | |
| William Creech - 1791 - 346 páginas
...happy, who neither fells ftock nor his confcience; fince, I fay, all thefe things are fo, Let us, fince life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and lo die, Expatiate free o'er all this fcene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plan. YES, let... | |
| Adam Smith - 1795 - 402 páginas
...inferno a. lui s. oppofe ; e In vano S' anno a" Afia, e di Libia il popol mijio, &c. Let us, fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about us, and to die, &c. Both in Englifh and in Italian Verfe, an accent, though it mufl never be mifplaced, may fometimes... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 páginas
...things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (fince life can little more fupply Than jrft to look about us, and to die), Expatiate free o'er all this fccne of man ; A mighty maze '. but not without a plan : [(hoot; A wild, where weeds and flowers prnmifcuous... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 páginas
...my Saint John ! leave all meaner "• things To low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let us, fince life can little more fupply Than juft to look about...fcene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A Wild, where weeds and fiow'rs pronirfcuoui Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fiuit.[lhoo!; Together... | |
| 1796 - 246 páginas
...-L\. WAKE, my ST. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (fmce life can little more fupply Than juft to look about...fcene of Man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous fhoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 páginas
...adduced, is punctually correfpondent with that of the moft fagacious- fubje£t of the narrative. Ver. 3. Life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us, and to die. Much in the fame manner Denham, Of Prudence : Learn to live well, that thou may'ft die fo too : To... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - 1796 - 234 páginas
...adapted for philofophical contemplation, and had there fufficient lei, fure to •• "Expatiate free on all this fcene of man, "'A mighty maze, but not without a plan." In this retreat be wrote the Patriot King. A company of French and Knglifh were dining with Lord Bolingbroke... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 páginas
...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 and flow'rs promiscuous... | |
| 1799 - 394 páginas
...following verfe, implying, Surely Tuch a brief exiltence ought not to be m alt: ft wretched. — " Since life can little more fupply, Than juft to look about us and to die." Pope. • So llifiyi , that it fcarcely allows time for a fecond look. This ftage orke pnlr, not an... | |
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