The wise more active grow by being crossed
- DMI number:
- 13396
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The wise more active grow by being crossed
- Last Line:
- Since art has oft restored what fortune lost
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Roger Boyle
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from 'Guzman' Act 4. Boyle (1739) II: 221-387.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.19
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Roger Boyle's Earl of Orrery's Guzman
- Attributed To:
- Roger Boyle
Poem Aliases
Boyle. Guzman.
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