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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
Related People
Author:
John Dryden
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from Epilogue to The Unhappy Favourite. Calif. II (1972): 182-3.
Content/Publication
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