Secure and idle spirits never thrive
- DMI number:
- 15249
- First Line:
- Secure and idle spirits never thrive
- Last Line:
- When most the gods for their advancement strive
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- George Chapman
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Holaday (1987): 573 (extract from 'The Warres of Pompey and Caesar', Act 3, Scene 2).
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.73
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Chapman's Caesar and Pompey
- Attributed To:
- George Chapman
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