Great souls discern not when the leap's too wide
- DMI number:
- 5543
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Great souls discern not when the leap's too wide
- Last Line:
- They jump and only view the farther side
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 4 scene II of Dryden's The Conquest of Granada. Calif. XI (1978): 80.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Conquest of Granada.
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