In various ways designing mortals move
- DMI number:
- 4179
- First Line:
- In various ways designing mortals move
- Last Line:
- Adding no griefs to those we can't avoid
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Essay, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Fate / fortune / providence, Hopelessness / vanity of life, and The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- Nahum Tate
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Stuart Gillespie and David Hopkins, eds, The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies, 1684-1709, 6 vols (London, 2008), V: ix. Not in Tate (1684).
- Translated from:
- Simonides
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]
- Page No(s):
- pp.192-194
- Poem Title:
- A Thought upon Human Life. Paraphras'd from Simonides.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.54-55
- Poem Title:
- A Thought upon Human Life. Paraphras'd from Simonides.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tate.
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- A Thought upon Human Life. Paraphras'd from Simonides.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Tate
- Attributed To:
- Nahum Tate
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