 | John Landseer - 1834 - 534 pàgines
...Bolingbroke—as if, in a moment of transport, Giorgione had sounded forth, " Awake!" my Titian—" leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings: Let us"—expatiate free— L2 And as if these stirring sounds, echoed in more Miltonic phrase and more... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pàgines
...as to our present and future state, v. 281, &c., to the end. ESSAY ON MAN. 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 to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Ralph Lockwood - 1835 - 644 pàgines
...ambition, and accompany him on his sublime, philosophical excursion through the universe ! ' Awake, my St. John ; leave all meaner things 'To low ambition and the pride of kings !' " The poet himself could not have been conscious of the feeling it expresses, or he never would... | |
 | 1837 - 680 pàgines
...the stern voice of necessity rather than the persuasion of the poet and friend who invoked him " To leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of Kings." It is upon the fruits of those lucubrations, which he entered upon after his return from banishment... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pàgines
...absolute submission due to Pro* vidcnce, both as to our prêtent ала future stale. AWAKE, my ST. bully, lifts the head, and lies ; There dwelt a citizen as (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Jean Joseph Jacotot, P. Y. de Séprés - 1840 - 906 pàgines
...on fait lire l'Essai sur l'Homme et l1 extrait du Paradis ptrdu , avec la traduction : 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St. p (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 526 pàgines
...the beginning of the Essay on Man, in a strain of friendly expostulation and regard. " Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Their sentiments for each other have all the appearance, all the warm and affectionate expression of... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pàgines
...amang ; But I, the Queen of a' Scotland, Maua lie in prison sträng! (Burns' Poem's.) Awake , my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. (Pope's Essay.) There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and pewer of Waller's wit, than... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841 - 520 pàgines
...the beginning of the Essay on Man, in a strain of friendly expostulation and regard. " Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings." Their sentiments for each other have all the appearance, all the warm and affectionate expression of... | |
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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 ;... 
