If the successful troublers of mankind
- DMI number:
- 27102
- First Line:
- If the successful troublers of mankind
- Last Line:
- Is to set bounds and give ambition law
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Edmund Waller
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire ('Since James the Second graced the British throne'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 74-75.
- Title:
- A general history of the stage; with pieces of poetry never before published [T88607]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'as sweet-tongu'd Waller writes' [p.16]
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
- Title:
- A general history of the stage; with pieces of poetry never before published [T88608]
- Page No(s):
- p.16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'as sweet-tongu'd Waller writes' [p.16]
- Attributed To:
- Edmund Waller
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