For man does most by the comparative
- DMI number:
- 13968
- First Line:
- For man does most by the comparative
- Last Line:
- That which he hardly could endure before
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'A Panegyrick to the King.' Howard (1696): 1-9.
- First Line:
- Our woes made habits by the use or dare
- Last Line:
- Unto our souls the use of faculties
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Your virtues have not more made crowns your due
- Last Line:
- And leave but one pure element of fire
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.135
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
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