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Next add our cities of illustrious name

DMI number:
37085
First Line:
Next add our cities of illustrious name
Last Line:
Their costly labour and stupendous frame
Poem Genre / Form:
Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
Themes:
City and Trades / labour
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Dryden's translation of Virgil's 'Georgics', 2. Calif. V (1988): 188.
Content/Publication
Title:
Exercises for improvement in elocution [T126614] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
p.19
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Dryden.
Attributed To:
John Dryden