...resign'd, Cut off in early life ; alas, how short The longest is ; how truly we are taught By bard that " Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die!" A sailor's funeral, and a sailor's grave, Are soon prepar'd : — with him the dark blue wave Is always...

...Pharisee ; Of both, in him unite the better part, The blameless conduct and the humble heart. (2) (1) Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die. — POPE. (2) fin some of Mr. Crabbe's graver descriptions there is a tone of chastised and unambitious...

...distorted Lockeian 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,...

...should have identified that point of view as the station occupied by the independent landed gentleman: Awake, my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low...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, what...

...hard to say, if greater want of skill / Appear in writing or in judging ill" and the latter begins "Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things / To low ambition, and the pride of kings." And we are startled neither when Matthew Arnold begins his "The Scholar Gipsy" with a much less direct...

...the clouds in 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...

...announced by Pope in his introduction to the inimitable Essay on Man : — " Let us (since life can \\jfie more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of mail ; A mighty maze ; but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and Sowers promiscuous shoot, Or...

...vains. » E in van 1" interne a'lui s'oppose; e in vano S'armô d'Asia, e di Libia il popol misto...' Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...2 Dans la poésie anglaise comme dans l'italienne, un accent, bien qu'il ne doive jamais être...

...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...

...itself, similar contrasts emerge. The beginning of An Essay on Man shifts the emphasis to the epistle: AWAKE! my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things To low Ambition and the Pride of Kings. ( i . i-2l The opening address has a certain grandeur; but the tone soon becomes more intimate, and...