Of things in which mankind does most excel
- DMI number:
- 3415
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Last Line:
- Succeed where great Torquato and our greater Spenser fail
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- John Sheffield
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Variant of An essay on poetry ('Of all those arts in which the wise excel'). Chalmers (1810) X: 91-94.
- First Line:
- But should this muse harmonious numbers yield
- Last Line:
- Like goodly mountains till they reach the skies
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- a just coherence made
- Last Line:
- Like goodly mountains till they reach the skies
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Here the young muse instructed how to sing
- Last Line:
- All steal Zelinda and her charms divide
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Of all those arts in which the wise excel
- Last Line:
- Succeed where Spenser and even Milton fail
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Of things in which mankind does most excel
- Last Line:
- Succeed where Torquato and our great Spenser fail
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- First Line:
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed
- Last Line:
- True wit is everlasting like the sun
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116471]
- Page No(s):
- pp.4-25
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T116963]
- Page No(s):
- pp.30-41
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- A collection of poems viz the temple of death [T124630]
- Page No(s):
- pp.4-25
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Marquis of Normanby
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol II] [T71]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-16
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Earl of Murlgrave
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [N21690]
- Page No(s):
- pp.1-13
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Earl of Murlgrave
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [T813]
- Page No(s):
- pp.35-48
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable the Earl of Murlgrave
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- An essay on poetry written by the Marquis of Normanby; with several other poems [ESTC R213098]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-31
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry
- Attribution:
- The Earl of Mulgrave
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Poems by the Earls of Roscommon and Dorset; The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckingham, &c. [vol. II] [BL]
- Page No(s):
- pp.107-117
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- Poems on several occasions. By the Earls of Roscommon, and Dorset, &c. [T132428]
- Page No(s):
- pp.155-169
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace John, Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire and Buckinhamshire [Vol II] [T94654]
- Page No(s):
- pp.162-174
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By John Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon and Dorset; the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T130333]
- Page No(s):
- pp.162-174
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By John Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of Mr. Alexander Pope. To which are added, I. Coopers-Hill. By Sir John Denham. II. An Essay on Translated Verse... [ESTC T5394]
- Page No(s):
- p.351-362
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Right Honourable The Earl of Mulgrave.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17788]
- Page No(s):
- pp.345-360
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Right Honourable John Earl of Mulgrave, the present Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of Petronius Arbiter translated by several hands [T17789]
- Page No(s):
- pp.345-360
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- Written by the Right Honourable John Earl of Mulgrave, the present Duke of Buckingham
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire [Vol II] [T94653]
- Page No(s):
- pp.135-148
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c [Vol II] [T95240]
- Page No(s):
- pp.134-146
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset: The Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire, &c. [Vol II] [T146730]
- Page No(s):
- pp.109-119
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol II] [T94657]
- Page No(s):
- pp.161-174
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace, John, Duke of Buckinghamshire &c.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset [Vol. II] [ECCO] [N25977]
- Page No(s):
- pp.155-169
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By his Grace, John, Duke of Buckinghamshire &c.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T152378]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-172
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By John Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire [Vol II] [T95241]
- Page No(s):
- pp.159-172
- Poem Title:
- An Essay On Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By His Grace John, Duke of Buckinghamshire
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, Dorset, the Duke of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c [Vol II] [T95242]
- Page No(s):
- pp.105-115
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the the [sic] Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset, the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [N35509]
- Page No(s):
- p.107-116
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckingham.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
- Title:
- The works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon, and Dorset: the Dukes of Devonshire, Buckinghamshire &c. [Vol II] [T119718]
- Page No(s):
- pp.109-119
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Poetry.
- Attribution:
- By the Duke of Buckinghamshire.
- Attributed To:
- John Sheffield
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Buckingham. Essay on poetry.
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