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The old Egyptians hid their wit

DMI number:
18836
First Line:
The old Egyptians hid their wit
Last Line:
But folly's at full length
Poem Genre / Form:
Epigram, Quatrain abab, and Alternate rhyme [ababcdcd...]
Themes:
Places[Bath], Virtue / vice, and Art / painting[Painting of Richard Nashe]
Related People
Author:
Jane Brereton
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Jane Brereton’s Poems (1744) See ‘The Cambrian Muse: Welsh Identity and Hanoverian Loyalty in the Poems of Jane Brereton (1685–1740),’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (2005): 587–603.
Author:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Confidence:
Speculation (10%)
Comments:
Forster (1980): 65.
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Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 2] [T95888] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.292-293
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture At Full Length Between The Busts OF Sir Isaac Newton And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By The E-- Of C--.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 4] [T116245] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.57-58
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture At Full Length Between The Busts Of Sir Isaac Newton And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By the E- of C-.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands [vol 2] [N14969] [gb]
Page No(s):
pp.290-291
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture At Full Length Between The Busts Of Sir Isaac Newton And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By The Earl Of Chesterfield.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title:
A new miscellany in prose and verse by Swift, Holles St John and other eminent hands [T67058]
Page No(s):
pp.50-51
Poem Title:
On N---sh's Picture at full Length, between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope, at Bath.
Attribution:
By the E--- of C---d.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title:
The humours of the times [T100962] [ECCO]
Page No(s):
pp.28-29
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between the Busts of Sir I. Newton, And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Chesterfield.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title:
The new foundling hospital for wit [T139942] [2nd ed] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.29-30
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between The Busts of Sir I. Newton, And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Chesterfield.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title:
The new foundling hospital for wit [T139949] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.29-30
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between The Busts Of Sir I. Newton, And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By The Earl Of Chesterfield.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Title:
The new foundling hospital for wit [T143683] [ecco]
Page No(s):
pp.29-30
Poem Title:
On Mr. Nash's Picture, At Full Length, Between the Busts of Sir I. Newton, And Mr. Pope, At Bath.
Attribution:
By the Earl of Chesterfield.
Attributed To:
Philip Dormer Stanhope