Posterity when histories relate
- DMI number:
- 6925
- First Line:
- Posterity when histories relate
- Last Line:
- Too great for him to do or them to hear
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Satire, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- The monarchy (heads of state)[William III]
- Author:
- Daniel Defoe
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Defoe's The Mock Mourners, a satyr, by way of elegy on King William (LION)
- Title:
- Athenianism: or the new projects of Mr. John Dunton [T145151]
- Page No(s):
- p.51
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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