Indulge and to thy genius freely give
- DMI number:
- 6009
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Indulge and to thy genius freely give
- Last Line:
- A name a nothing but an old wife's tale
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's Fifth Satire of Persius ('Of ancient use to poets it belongs'); Calif. IV (1974): 339.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.244
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Pers.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Persius. Satire 5.
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