Theophrastus that eloquent sage by Athens so greatly adored
- DMI number:
- 11836
- First Line:
- Theophrastus that eloquent sage by Athens so greatly adored
- Last Line:
- But must drink like a fish in the sea to soar to the pitch of a god
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Drinking song, Extract / snippet from longer work, and Quatrain aabb
- Themes:
- Food and drink[Wine] and History[Great philosophers]
- Author:
- Edward Ward
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- LION. Like Poem ID 11835, which this follows, excerpted from Ward's 'Tipling Philosophers'. Note that stanzas seem to be selected out of order from the original.
- Title:
- A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 93-96
- Poem Title:
- [The Tipling Philosophers. A Song.] This Addition was made in Dublin.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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