How all our joys are set in toils of woe
- DMI number:
- 19211
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- How all our joys are set in toils of woe
- Last Line:
- So from our sorrows all our joys increase
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Joyfulness / happiness
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from 'The Vestal Virgin' Act 5 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- 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.204
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- How. Vest. Virg.
- Attributed To:
- T. Howard
Poem Aliases
The Vestal Virgin.
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