The greatest gift that nature does bestow
- DMI number:
- 30275
- First Line:
- The greatest gift that nature does bestow
- Last Line:
- And motion always ceases with the breath
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Moral, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts and Money / wealth
- Author:
- Thomas Parnell
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Rawson and Lock (1989): 329-330; 'should perhaps be regarded as to some extent doubtfully TP's' (596).
- First Line:
- A pin by various fortune tossed
- Last Line:
- And both the Indies are our own
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- The greatest gifts that nature does bestow
- Last Line:
- It dies in rags and scarce deserves a name
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [N67747] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XVII. Poverty breeds Contempt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T127913] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.18
- Poem Title:
- The Applicatoin to Fab. XVII. Poverty breeds Contempt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- Select tales and fables with prudential maxims in prose and verse [vol II] [T128069] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.112
- Poem Title:
- The Application to Fab. XVII. Poverty breeds Contempt.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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