This this the sum of all my wishes was
- DMI number:
- 42185
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- This this the sum of all my wishes was
- Last Line:
- And with a mouse's argument confutes
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- City[London.], Retirement, Rural life, and Virtue / vice
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Thomas Sprat
- Confidence:
- Confident (50%)
- Comments:
- Harold F. Brooks, 'Contributors to Brome's Horace', Notes and Queries, 174 (1938), 200-1 (p. 200).
- First Line:
- At the large foot of a fair hollow tree
- Last Line:
- With peace let tares and acorns be my food
- Relationship:
- Unknown
- Comments:
- Title:
- The poems of Horace [ESTC R712]
- Page No(s):
- pp.290-295
- Poem Title:
- The same by another hand.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
Poem Aliases
Horace. Satires. Book 2 Satire 6.
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