Let high birth triumph what can be more great

DMI number:

27069

Poem Aliases

Young. Satire 1. To Dorset.

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Evidence:

First Line:

Let high birth triumph what can be more great

Last Line:

The good and pious are the only great

Poem Genre / Form:

Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet

Themes:

Virtue / vice

Related People

Author:

Edward Young

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract w. variant from Satire 1. Chalmers (1810) XIII: 382-384.

Related Poems

First Line:

My verse is satire Dorset lend your ear

Last Line:

For who can write so fast as men run mad

Relationship:

Variant Of

Comments:

First Line:

Let high birth triumph what can be more great

Last Line:

The fool or knave that wears a title lies

Relationship:

Variant Of

Comments:

Content/Publication

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [N21758] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.73

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T119230] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.69

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T133650] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.68

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T147647] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.73

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T147696] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.77

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T78289] [ecco]

Page No(s):

p.77

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young

Title:

Select lessons in verse and prose from various authors designed for the improvement of youth [T78290]

Page No(s):

p.77

Poem Title:

Virtue the only Nobility.

Attribution:

Young.

Attributed To:

Edward Young