If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill
- DMI number:
- 1974
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If meagre Gildon draws his venal quill
- Last Line:
- Who would not weep if A--n were he
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Dunces and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Twickenham edition VI: 142-3, 283-5.
- First Line:
- If meagre Gildon draw his venal quill
- Last Line:
- Who would not weep if A---n were he
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The bard who pilfered pastoral's renown
- Last Line:
- And owned that nine such poets made a Tate
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T173801]
- Page No(s):
- pp.217-220
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T202847]
- Page No(s):
- pp.207-209
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [ECCO] [T39475]
- Page No(s):
- pp.183-186
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [T172697] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.129-133
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [T204336] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.260-264
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [T39473] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.129-133
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Miscellanies. The last volume [T39474]
- Page No(s):
- pp.217-220.
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A Supplement to Dr. Swift's and Mr. Pope's Works [ECCO] [T48930]
- Page No(s):
- pp.332-334
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire.
- Attribution:
- [By] Mr. Pope (table of contents)
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
- Title:
- Memoirs of the society of Grub-street [vol 2] [T97941] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.190-194
- Poem Title:
- Fragment of a Satire in the third Volume of Swift's and Pope's Miscellanies, inserted since with alterations in the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, in Mr. Pope's Works, Vol. II.
- Attribution:
- inserted...in...Mr. Pope's Works
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Pope. Characters. Atticus.
Pope. Fragments of a Satire.
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