One world sufficed not Alexander's mind
- DMI number:
- 5955
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- One world sufficed not Alexander's mind
- Last Line:
- The mighty soul how small a body holds
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's Tenth Satire of Juvenal ('Look round the habitable world, how few'); Calif. IV (1974): 223.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd. Juv.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Juvenal. Satire 10.
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