O- whom virtue makes the worthy heir
- DMI number:
- 23516
- First Line:
- O- whom virtue makes the worthy heir
- Last Line:
- Degenerate Britain what the great should be
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Sonnet and Panegyric
- Themes:
- High society / the court[Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke] and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Thomas Edwards
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Suarez (1997) VI: 394. Edwards (1758): 287.
- First Line:
- C--e with whom my pilot and my guide
- Last Line:
- Covered with wrecks of peace and honour lost
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- C--s I hoped the little heaven shall spare
- Last Line:
- Grateful to him who lived and died thy friend
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O sprung from worthies who with councils wise
- Last Line:
- To bear the appointed lot of human kind
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- O--- great meed shalt thou receive
- Last Line:
- And glad agnize before his father's throne
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Peace to thy ashes to thy memory fame
- Last Line:
- This formed the daughter parent friend and wife
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- R-- who well hast judged the task too hard
- Last Line:
- From calm retirement and a mind serene
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Thou who successive in that honoured seat
- Last Line:
- Presume to sound that may deserve thy praise
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- W- whose dear friendship in the dawning years
- Last Line:
- And praise thy lot contented with my own
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- When pensive on that portraiture I gaze
- Last Line:
- Single unpropped and nodding to my fall
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Wisely O C- enjoy the present hour
- Last Line:
- How long or short let us resign to heaven
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Wo worth the man who in ill hour assayed
- Last Line:
- Which sunk one half of Spenser's deathless fame
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Young fair and good ah why should young and fair
- Last Line:
- Though all too mean for who deserves the best
- Relationship:
- By the same hand as
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems by several hands, in four volumes [N27942]
- Page No(s):
- p.113
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in four volumes by several hands Vol. 2 [T115888]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T.E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes, by several hands [Vol. 2] [T144532]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T101653] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.386
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T115890] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [DUODECIMO]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. [Vol 2] [T144724] [ECCO] [OCTAVO]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands. With Notes [Vol 2] [T116246] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.337-338
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I. To Philip Yorke, Esq; now earl of Hardwicke.
- Attribution:
- By T. Edwards, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T115891] [Vol.2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.324
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
- Title:
- A collection of poems in three volumes, by several hands [T148949] [Vol. 2] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.322
- Poem Title:
- Sonnet I.
- Attribution:
- By T. E.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Edwards
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