Success the mark no mortal wit
- DMI number:
- 1762
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Success the mark no mortal wit
- Last Line:
- Fortune and cowardice succeed
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Ambition, Fate / fortune / providence, and Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Samuel Butler
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Hudibras. Wilders (1967): 27 (I, i).
- Title:
- Fables and other short poems [II]
- Page No(s):
- f. 5r
- Poem Title:
- On Success
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (M-Z) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.343
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Hud.
- Attributed To:
- Samuel Butler
Poem Aliases
Butler. Hudibras.
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