Careful Words

awake (n.)

awake (v.)

awake (adj.)

  Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Much Ado about Nothing. Act ii. Sc. 3.

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.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1.

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve,

And press with vigour on;

A heavenly race demands thy zeal,

And an immortal crown.

Philip Doddridge (1702-1751): Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race.