Grant but ten thousand pounds Philaurus cries
- DMI number:
- 24411
- First Line:
- Grant but ten thousand pounds Philaurus cries
- Last Line:
- And void of that a monarch's wealth is poor
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Composite poem, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Money / wealth
- Author:
- Elizabeth Carter
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'Whatever we think on't fortune's but a toy.' Carter (1738): 15-18.
- First Line:
- Whatever we think on it fortune's but a toy
- Last Line:
- And scorns the fickle deity of fools
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellaneous tracts; or, select passages, historical, chronological, moral, &c. extracted from eminent authors, ancient and modern [T119426] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.254
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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