Tis yet in vain I own to keep a pother
- DMI number:
- 37128
- First Line:
- Tis yet in vain I own to keep a pother
- Last Line:
- And neither leans on this side nor on that
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Second satire of the second book of Horace. Twickenham edition IV.
- First Line:
- What and how great the virtue and the art
- Last Line:
- Let us be fixed and our own masters still
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Ethic tales and fables [gb] [no estc number]
- Page No(s):
- Fab. 14.
- Poem Title:
- The Foxes.
- Attribution:
- Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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