Pleasures are few and fewer we enjoy
- DMI number:
- 27074
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Pleasures are few and fewer we enjoy
- Last Line:
- What is it but rank poison in your veins
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Crime and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Edward Young
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Satire 5. Chalmers (1810) XIII: 391-395.
- First Line:
- Pleasures are few and fewer we enjoy
- Last Line:
- What is it but rank poison in the veins
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [N21758] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.75
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T119230] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.71
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T133650] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.70
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T147696] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- Select lessons in prose and verse from various authors [T78289] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
- Title:
- Select lessons in verse and prose from various authors designed for the improvement of youth [T78290]
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- On Criminal Pleasures.
- Attribution:
- Young.
- Attributed To:
- Edward Young
Poem Aliases
Young. Satire 5. On Women.
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