Nothing so much intoxicates the brain

DMI number:

30225

First Line:

Nothing so much intoxicates the brain

Last Line:

Though praise to venom turns if wrong applied

Poem Genre / Form:

Moral, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

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Author:

Elijah Fenton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Extract from An Epistle to Thomas Lambard ('Slow though I am to wake the sleeping lyre'). Chalmers (1810) X: 415-418.

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Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [N67747] [ecco]

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p.14

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