For forms of government let fools contest
- DMI number:
- 30150
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For forms of government let fools contest
- Last Line:
- And bade self-love and social be the same
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Nature, and Politics
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Essay on Man Epistle III. Twickenham edition III i.
- First Line:
- For forms of government let fools contest
- Last Line:
- And all of God that bless mankind or mend
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol I] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.167
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle 3.
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