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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... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ... - Page 231
by Alexander Pope - 1851 - 484 pages
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man :" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan !" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be...
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Poetry and Poets: A Collection of the Choicest Anecdotes Relative ..., Volume 1

Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...second thoughts of poets are not unworthy of notice. POPE has this verse in his " Essay on Man:" " Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan." But in the first edition it was, " A mighty maze without a plan!" GRAY'S second thoughts seem to be...
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A legacy of affection, advice, and instruction, from a retired governess, to ...

Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...two hemistichs or half verses, and seems to give the reader time to breath, as "Awake my St. John — leave all meaner things To low ambition — and the...free — o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze — yet not without a plan." In these lines the pause is finely varied, and the harmony complete, whereas...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...Providence both as to our present and future state, ver. 231, to the end. EPISTLE X. AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot Or, gardens tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what...
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Die Biotomie des Menschen: oder, Die Wissenschaft der Natur-Eintheilungen ...

Wilhelm Butte - Anthropology - 1829 - 644 pages
...S!erlauf$. b. ®. 3tt>etter S3 iotomie ш jweifadien ©efdjledjtéí „L«l us* — — — — — — — Expatiate free, o'er all. this scene of Man, , A mighty maze ! but not without a plan !" ,' . ' Pope. I. in betn Dptimum feineé 9¿ormalíS5erlauf$. §. 120. Äataftev bcé Gefd)lecf)t$...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Providence, both as to our present and future state, ver. 281, to the end. EPISTLE I. AWAKK, my St. John ! o ; Эг garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open,...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1830 - 658 pages
...the earth ; or is it of some antient stream that he has succeeded in tracing the undoubted pedigree ? To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us, since...scene of man, A mighty maze, but not without a plan.' Need we say who this worthy is? In sober truth, he is a Curemonger, the quack-regnant of his day, infinitely...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...i:,SQ. EPISTLE I. Of the Nature and State of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...more supply Than just to look about us and to die) x Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan; A wild, where...
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La frusta letteraria, Volume 4

Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti - Italian literature - 1830 - 224 pages
...con questi otto versi. « Avvake , rny Saint John ! Leave alt meaner things To low ambition, and thè pride of Kings Let us (since Life can little more...Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o' er ali this Scene of Mun; A mighty Miize? but not without a pian; A Wiid , where wecds and flouers...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to ...

Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereafter, ver. 326. on EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my St. John '. leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 5 A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or...
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