Ill customs by degrees to habits rise
- DMI number:
- 9552
- First Line:
- Ill customs by degrees to habits rise
- Last Line:
- As brooks make rivers rivers turn to seas
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extracts from 'Of Pythagorean Philosophy' ('A king is sought to guide the growing State'); Calif. VII (2000): 505, 488.
- First Line:
- Ill customs by degrees to habits rise
- Last Line:
- Ill habits soon become exalted vice
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Ill habits gather by unseen degrees
- Last Line:
- As brooks make rivers rivers run to seas
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.177
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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