If you demand the fortune of that day
- DMI number:
- 21248
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- If you demand the fortune of that day
- Last Line:
- Yet did I never basely quit the field
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence
- Author:
- John Hughes
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Hughes translated the letter in which this verse extract is quoted: see Lawrence S. Wright, 'Eighteenth-Century Replies to Pope's Eloisa', Studies in Philology 31 (1934), 519-533, 522.
- Title:
- Cupid Triumphant. Containing several Amorous Poems, Love Letters, &c. [N27871] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Cupid triumphant. Containing several novels, love letters, &c. [T223404] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.45
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Homer. Iliad.
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