The greater care the higher passion shews
- DMI number:
- 5520
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The greater care the higher passion shews
- Last Line:
- But that which sick men have of life their pains
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epigram, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Marriage and Sex / relations between the sexes
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Non-sequential extracts from Act 3 of Dryden's The Conquest of Grenada, the second part. Calif. XI (1978): 138, 136.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.115
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Dryden. Conquest of Granada.
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