Life doth her great actions spell
- DMI number:
- 16096
- First Line:
- Life doth her great actions spell
- Last Line:
- And in short measures life may perfect be
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from To the immortal memory and friendship of that noble pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir Henry Morison. Extract form To Sir Henry Cary. Bevington (2012) VII: 220-227.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.165
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson's Underwoods
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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