Through misery leads to fortitude and truth
- DMI number:
- 28201
- First Line:
- Through misery leads to fortitude and truth
- Last Line:
- Which then even then he scorned and blushed to name
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- Richard Savage
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Through Mis'ry leads to Happiness, and Truth' Wanderer, Canto III, l.265. [Misquoted by Johnson in "Life of Savage"]. Tracy (1962): 128.
- Title:
- Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq. [ESTC T88302]
- Page No(s):
- p.287
- Poem Title:
- The Wanderer.
- Attribution:
- Mr. Savage
- Attributed To:
- Richard Savage
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