| 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...to die) Expatiate free, o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! But not without a plan. — Pope. 10. His years are young, but his experience old... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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 and flowers promiscuous shoot, Or garden... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 páginas
...St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings : Let us (sinee life ean seene of Man ; A mighty maze! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiseuous... | |
| Going - 1825 - 662 páginas
...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."... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 páginas
...use under the governance of a new and individual style which is the product of a mixture of styles: A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample... | |
| Peter France - 1992 - 268 páginas
...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...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden,... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...FiP; HAP; NAEL-I; OAEL-1; PoEL-3 An Essay on Man 58 Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low o, Willy, let you and me be wipers Of scores out with...us free, from rats or from mice, If we've promise A mighty maze! but not without a plan; (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;... | |
| John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 páginas
...begins the Essay on Man with an exactly similar testimony to the congruence of idea and landscape: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden,... | |
| Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 páginas
...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...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open,... | |
| Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 páginas
...in his effort to get a purchase on the problem of the imagination, poetry, and ethical obligations: Let us (since Life can little more supply Than just...to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what... | |
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