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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! "
Educational Pamphlets 61: History of Education in America]. - Page 13
1827
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...pleasure, and pain in general, and how constantly they succeeded one another — Spectator. 9. 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, — Pope. 10....
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...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 scene of man ; • A mighty maze ! but not wiSiout a plan ; A wild, where...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...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...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Universe. Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us ; Or pilot, from amidst the Cyclades, Delos Expatiate free o'er all this scene bf Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...Universe. 1 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 wild, where weeds...
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Tracts in Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...DIRECTION. 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 wild where...
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Going Too Far. A Tale for All Ages

Going - 1825 - 662 pages
...departure of the giddy trio, which was then broken by Mr. Irwin. " How lamentable is it," said he, " when Life can little more supply, Than just to look about us and to die." to observe any of such precious hours wasted on vanities of which the certain end is vexation of spirit."...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life cau 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 weeds...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : Let us (sinee life ean little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die). Expatiate free o'er all this seene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds...
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