| agriculture horticulture - 1823 - 434 páginas
...beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable, " Come, Christopher, and leave all meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us, since life can little else supply; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all this dreadful field,... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...Ike Nature and Stale of Man, with respect to the Universe. 1 AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let...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. 2 Together... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 páginas
...Providence here, and a resignation to it here and hereon EPISTLE 1. AWAKE ! my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let...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 páginas
...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 of kings. Let...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...Of the Nature and State of Man Kith respect to the Universe. Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner 'd, observes • Imagin'd lands and regions in the 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;... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 554 páginas
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 páginas
...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 - 424 páginas
...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 páginas
...CANDIDATES FOR THE PRESENT VACANCY IN THE EAST INDIA DIRECTION. Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let...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 páginas
...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... | |
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