Seek not thy self without thy self to find
- DMI number:
- 5957
- First Line:
- Seek not thy self without thy self to find
- Last Line:
- For conscience is the test of every mind
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Dryden's First Satire of Persius ('How anxious are our cares and yet how vain') (order of lines inverted). Calif. IV (1974): 259 [last line is first: The Conscience]
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.129
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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