Greatly unfortunate he fights the cause
- DMI number:
- 18435
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Greatly unfortunate he fights the cause
- Last Line:
- Draw all the vengeance of his arm upon them
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Ancient history
- Author:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Cato Act 1 Scene 1. Chalmers (1810) IX: 576-597.
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- p.38
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Add. Cato.
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
Poem Aliases
Addison. Cato.
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