Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
- DMI number:
- 5549
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Patience in cowards is tame hopeless fear
- Last Line:
- But in brave minds a scorn of what they bear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry: ‘The Indian Queen, written jointly with [Sir Robert] Howard’.
- Author:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'The Indian Queen' Act 3 Scene 1. Howard (1692).
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.176
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.15
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir R. Howard's Indian Queen
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [T134540] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.133
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Howard's Indian Queen.
- Attributed To:
- Sir Robert Howard
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.272
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Indian Queen.
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