Five hundred pounds too small a boon
- DMI number:
- 17589
- First Line:
- Five hundred pounds too small a boon
- Last Line:
- It scarce would buy the paper
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram
- Themes:
- Patronage and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Allan Ramsay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Works (1945-1974) IV: 260.
- Title:
- A choice collection of poetry by the most ingenious men of the age [vol 1] [T124643] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.33
- Poem Title:
- An Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of select epigrams in which are many originals never before printed by the most eminent hands [T124651]
- Page No(s):
- p.69
- Poem Title:
- CCXLI. On the Duchess of Marlbourough's Offer of 500 l. for the best Poem on the Duke's Actions.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Epigrams fresh gather'd from the conversation of the polite [N18487] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.35
- Poem Title:
- Occasioned by a Report, that her Grace the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough had offered a Reward of 500l. to the Poet who should best exert his Genius in Honour of the late Duke her Husband.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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