See nature round a hoary prospect yields
- DMI number:
- 11667
- First Line:
- See nature round a hoary prospect yields
- Last Line:
- Her icy journey marked with silver wounds
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase and Couplet
- Themes:
- Entertainments / pastimes[Ice skating]
- Translated from:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- ODNB entry for Frowde: '[Frowde] is named as the author of ‘Cursus glacialis, Anglicé, scating’, printed in Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, volume 2 (1699), a collection of Oxford Latin verse edited by Addison; but Curll, who reprinted the poem in 1720, claimed that it was in fact written by Addison himself.'
- Translated from:
- Philip Frowde
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Scating: A Poem'. (1720: ESTC T64832): 1-5. ODNB entry: '[Frowde] is named as the author of ‘Cursus glacialis, Anglicé, scating’, printed in Musarum Anglicanarum Analecta, volume 2 (1699), a collection of Oxford Latin verse edited by Addison; but Curll, who reprinted the poem in 1720, claimed that it was in fact written by Addison himself.'
- Author:
- Thomas Newcomb
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- 'Scating: A Poem'. (1720: ESTC T64832): 7-13. ESTC cites Newcomb as translator of Frowde's original Latin verses.
- Title:
- Miscellanies in verse and prose, written by the right honourable Joseph Addison [T142873: Reissue of N20505, T142806 and T143098]
- Page No(s):
- pp.[42]-45
- Poem Title:
- Scating: A Poem.
- Attribution:
- By the Same [i.e. Newcomb]
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Newcomb
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