The pamphleteers their venom daily spit
- DMI number:
- 10482
- First Line:
- The pamphleteers their venom daily spit
- Last Line:
- They live by treason and we starve by wit
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Prologue
- Themes:
- Wit
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite. Calif. II (1972): 182-3.
- Title:
- The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (1721; T86917)
- Page No(s):
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'to which Mr. Dryden in a prologue of his refers'
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The laws of poetry, as laid down by the Duke of Buckinghamshire in his Essay on poetry, by the Earl of Roscommon... and by the Lord Lansdowne. (N10409) [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.283
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- 'to which Mr. Dryden in a prologue of his refers'
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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