Happy the man that has each fortune tried
- DMI number:
- 9429
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Happy the man that has each fortune tried
- Last Line:
- And can regale himself with bread and cheese
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Food and drink and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Jonathan Swift
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Swift Poems Project, Z406 (Not included).
- Author:
- William King
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Art of Cookery. Chalmers (1810) IX: 253-257.
- First Line:
- Ingenious L-- were a picture drawn
- Last Line:
- And never part till satisfied with blood
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.150
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From the Author of A Tale of a Tub
- Attributed To:
- Jonathan Swift
Poem Aliases
King. Art of cookery.
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