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 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - Liczba stron: 464
...rebuke him for it, as a divine if you like it, pr 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. Bis lordship was, however, so much taken up with the lower and more paltry concerns of politickt, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - Liczba stron: 334
...consequence of ;iil, the absolute submission due to Providence, both at to our present and future state. AWAKE, my 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)... | |
 | Young lady - 1809 - Liczba stron: 204
...in whatever is hurtful, and compel them to remove and keep at a distance every thing of this sort. 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. What an inscrutable... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - Liczba stron: 384
...divides the line into two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breathe, as Awake my St. John — -leave all meaner things To low ambition — and the pride of kings; I,rt us — since lite can little more supply, Than just to look about us — and to (lie, Expatiate... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - Liczba stron: 604
...the absolute submit sion due to Providence, loth as to our present and future etatc. AWAKE my Saint [etc.] Ijet us, since life can little more supply Than just to look alxtfit us, and to die., Expatiate free... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 536
...EPISTLE I. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner tiling^ I'o low ambition and the pride of Kings. Let vis (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 weedsand... | |
 | 1811 - Liczba stron: 550
...the declamation of boys. Who does not despise the caut of Pope when he sings thus to his patron ? " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." The character given of General Monk in the historical workis certainly not favourable, but we cannot... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - Liczba stron: 348
...illustrations which it displays as a poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...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... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - 1813 - Liczba stron: 446
...milord Saiut John Bolingbroke con questi otto versi. „ Avvake, my Saint John! Leave all meaner thingi To low ambition, and the pride of Kings Let us ( since...more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate fr«e o' er all this Scene of Man; A mighty Maze? but not without a plan; A Wild, where... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - Liczba stron: 132
...resignation to it here and ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, my St. JOHN ! leave all meaner things To low ambition,...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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