Greatness we owe to fortune or to fate
- DMI number:
- 41625
- First Line:
- Greatness we owe to fortune or to fate
- Last Line:
- But wisdom only can secure a state
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- First Line:
- Greatness we owe to fortune or to fate
- Last Line:
- But wisdom only can secure that state
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.277
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Denham's Sophy
- Attributed To:
- Sir John Denham
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