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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
Related People
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.
Content/Publication
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