 | 1852 - 874 sider
...all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. AWAKE, my St, 2 (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 sider
...lines in this poem exhibiting Pope's power of adapting sonnd to sense. AN ESSAY ON MAN. AWAKE, my St. John ', leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Then just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | Reginald James White - 1967 - 308 sider
...philosophy of the Essay on Man at Twickenham. After all, the Essay was dedicated to him. Awake, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. . . But 1732 was a little late in the day. What do the English remember of Queen Anne? First, of course,... | |
 | Peter France - 1992 - 268 sider
...Pope's first eight tensyllable lines become twelve twelve-syllable lines in his version: 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...praise the merit of a foe? (Fr. Ill) FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. ; FaBV; FaFP; (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 sider
...identified that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: 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... | |
 | Julien Offray de La Mettrie - 1994 - 100 sider
...the atmosphere no more rapidly. 12. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) begins his Essay on Man, Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. In old age, that cold season when one is no longer fitted to give or receive other pleasures, what... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 sider
...begins by inviting St John to what looks to be a meditative experience in the literal sense. He is to "leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of Kings" (1.1-2), to return to the ample fields, to philosophical exploration, from the baser concerns about... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 8889 An Essay on Man Awake, my St cure language he was the lodesterre. 6651 Secrets of Old Philosophers Wooid i (since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this... | |
 | Bradford K. Mudge - 2000 - 298 sider
...pornographic, the poem uses obscenity to attack Pope's sanctimonious philosophy. First Pope: 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... | |
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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 ;... 
