Our life can never be securely blessed
- DMI number:
- 9593
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Our life can never be securely blessed
- Last Line:
- Heaven punishes the bad and proves the best
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract w. variants from Absalom and Achitophel. Calif. II (1972): 6 ['But life can never be sincerely blestÂ’]
- First Line:
- In pious times ere priestcraft did begin
- Last Line:
- And willing nations knew their lawful lord
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- For life can never be sincerely blessed
- Last Line:
- Heaven punishes the bad and proves the best
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel.
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