 | 1811 - 550 halaman
...declamation of boys. Who does not despise the caut of Pope when he sings thus to his patron ? " Awake, my St. John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings." The character given of General Monk in the historical workis certainly not favourable, but we cannot... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 halaman
...which it displays as a poem. This Essay was translated into Latin verse by J. Sayer. EPISTLE I. 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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 halaman
...resignation to it here and ereafter, 326, &c. TO HENRY ST. JOHN LORD BOLINOBROKE. EPISTLE I. ^WAKE, 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 500 halaman
...it, as a divine if you like it, or as a badineur, if you think that more effectual. * Awake, my St John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings.) VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is. yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 500 halaman
...it, as a divine if you like it, or as a badineur, if you think that more effectual. * Awake, my St John, leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. VOL. XVIII. U What I write will show you that my head is yet weak. I had written to you by that gentleman... | |
 | 1820 - 774 halaman
...poet beautifully expresses it, in language singularly applicable. "JCome, Christopher, and leave aU meaner things, To low ambition and the pride of kings ; Let us since life can little eke supply ; Than just to swallow poison and to die ; Expatiate free o'er all... | |
 | 1818 - 706 halaman
...was consequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes : " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | 1818 - 592 halaman
...sequently the progenitor of that celebrated nobleman, whom Pope thus invokes ; • • " Awake my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings ;" &c. The Honourable St. Andrew St. John, the second surviving son of John the eleventh Lord St. John... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 254 halaman
...ą la Providence. AN ESSAY ON MAN. !.*»•» EPISTLE I. AN 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 halaman
...all the absolute submission due to Providence, both as to our present and future state. 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) Cxpatiate free o'er all... | |
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