Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid
- DMI number:
- 1374
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid
- Last Line:
- And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Communication
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Eloisa to Abelard. Twickenham edition II.
- Title:
- The Altar of Love [12 Theta 1321]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Letters.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Altar of Love: [Harding C 105] [N16438]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- Letters
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Post-office intelligence: or, universal gallantry [T73279]
- Page No(s):
- A3v
- Poem Title:
- Of the Use of Letters.
- Attribution:
- 'A. Pope'
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The altar of love. Consisting of poems and other miscellanies [ESTC N16485]
- Page No(s):
- p.21
- Poem Title:
- Letters.
- Attribution:
- Popeana. [i.e. Alexander Pope.]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86025]
- Page No(s):
- p.21-22
- Poem Title:
- LVI. From Mr. Pope, on the same Subject.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86180]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- From Mr. Pope, on the same Subject.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- The festoon: a collection of epigrams, ancient and modern [T86181] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- From Mr. Pope, on the same Subject.
- Attribution:
- From Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Eloisa to Abelard.
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