This peaceful tomb does now contain

DMI number:

4235

First Line:

This peaceful tomb does now contain

Last Line:

Then robbed us of the coming good

Poem Genre / Form:

Quatrain abab and Epitaph

Themes:

Death and Parents and children

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Author:

William Congreve

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

McKenzie II: 334.

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Content/Publication

Title:

A choice collection of poetry by the most ingenious men of the age [vol 1] [T124643] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

Epitaph on a Gentleman and his Son.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

A collection of epigrams. To which is prefixed, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [Vol. I] [ESTC T130692]

Page No(s):

LXXXII.

Poem Title:

Epitaph upon a Gentleman and his Son.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

A collection of epigrams. To which is prefix’d, a critical dissertation on this species of poetry. [ESTC T41]

Page No(s):

XC.

Poem Title:

Epitaph upon a Gentleman and his Son.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

Title:

Poetical miscellanies: the fifth part [T161282]

Page No(s):

pp.369-370

Poem Title:

Epitaph upon Robert Huntington, Of Stanton Harcourt, Esq; And Robert His Son.

Attribution:

By the same hand [i.e. Congreve]

Attributed To:

William Congreve

Title:

Select and Remarkable Epitaphs [Vol. 1] [T27439] [ECCO]

Page No(s):

p.72

Poem Title:

On Robert Huntingdon, of Stanten Harcourt, Esq; and Robert, his Son.

Attribution:

Wm. Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

Title:

Select Epitaphs [Vol. 2] [ESTC T137253]

Page No(s):

pp.116-117

Poem Title:

On Robert Huntington, of Stanton-Harcourt, Esq; and Robert his Son.

Attribution:

By Mr. Congreve.

Attributed To:

William Congreve

Title:

The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]

Page No(s):

pp.157-158

Poem Title:

Epitaph upon Robert Huntington, of Stanton Harcourt, Esq; and Robert his Son.

Attribution:

By the same Hand [i.e. Congreve]

Attributed To:

William Congreve

Title:

The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]

Page No(s):

pp.159-160

Poem Title:

Epitaph upon Robert Huntington, of Stanton Harcourt, Esq; and Robert his Son.

Attribution:

By the same hand [i.e. Congreve]

Attributed To:

William Congreve