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If ever grief could perfect form improve

DMI number:
8464
First Line:
If ever grief could perfect form improve
Last Line:
And whom they melt to pity sooth to love
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet and Address
Themes:
Ancient history, Grief / sadness / melancholy, and Theatre
Related People
Author:
Laurence Eusden
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
ODNB entry: 'Eusden certainly contributed translations from Claudian in The Guardian (127 and 164) which were reprinted with ten other poems by him in Steele's Miscellanies (1714).'
Content/Publication
Title:
A select collection of poems with notes biographical and historical [vol 4] [T93622] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.155-157
Poem Title:
To A Lady, Who Wept At Hearing Cato Read.
Attribution:
Mr. Eusden.
Attributed To:
Laurence Eusden
Title:
Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T133656]
Page No(s):
pp.235[i.e. 255]-258
Poem Title:
To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
Attribution:
By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
Attributed To:
Laurence Eusden
Title:
Poetical Miscellanies consisting of original poems and translations [T75180]
Page No(s):
pp.255-258
Poem Title:
To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
Attribution:
By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
Attributed To:
Laurence Eusden
Title:
Poetical Miscellanies, consisting of original poems and translations [T75179]
Page No(s):
pp.199-202
Poem Title:
To a Lady, That wept at the hearing Cato read.
Attribution:
By the same Hand [i.e. Eusden]
Attributed To:
Laurence Eusden