Sometimes to sense sometimes to nonsense leaning
- DMI number:
- 12309
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Sometimes to sense sometimes to nonsense leaning
- Last Line:
- But always blundering round about his meaning
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Wit[lack of]
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epistle to Arbuthnot. Twickenham edition IV.
- First Line:
- Sometimes to sense sometimes to nonsense leaning
- Last Line:
- And always blundering round about his meaning
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]
- Page No(s):
- XLV.
- Poem Title:
- A Character.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixd, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]
- Page No(s):
- LVI.
- Poem Title:
- A Character.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. II. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. A Character.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The flowers of Parnassus: or, the Lady's Miscellany for the year M. DCC. XXXV [T124918]
- Page No(s):
- p.63
- Poem Title:
- A Character.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol II] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.127
- Poem Title:
- XXVII. A Character.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Pope. Epistle to Arbuthnot.
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