All other acts of worldlings are but toil
- DMI number:
- 13451
- First Line:
- All other acts of worldlings are but toil
- Last Line:
- Till he become both their and his own curse
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- Benjamin Jonson
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from An Epistle to a friend to persuade him to the Wars. Bevington (2012) VII: 118-125.
- 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. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.30
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Johnson
- Attributed To:
- Benjamin Jonson
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