Greatness most envied when least understood
- DMI number:
- 18992
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Greatness most envied when least understood
- Last Line:
- To be more wretched than the vulgar can
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Ambition, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Antony and Cleopatra Act 5 Scene 2. Pinto (1928) I: 191-263.
- 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.156
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sed. Ant. and Cleop.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Charles Sedley
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Sedley. Antony and Cleopatra.
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