For human excellence hath this ill fate
- DMI number:
- 16530
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- For human excellence hath this ill fate
- Last Line:
- And envy blasts that fame it cannot share
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Scandal / fame / notoriety and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To Mr. Benlowes on his divine poem ('Till now I guessed but blindly to what height'). Works (1673): 322-324.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant to Mr. Benlowes
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. To Mr. Benlowes on his divine poem.
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