True wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- DMI number:
- 9596
- First Line:
- True wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Last Line:
- When more of nature's seen and less of art
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts
- Author:
- Matthew Prior
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Wright and Spears I: 21 (extract from A Satire on the modern translators ('Since the united Cunning of the Stage').
- First Line:
- Since the united cunning of the stage
- Last Line:
- And praise what D'Urfey not translating writ
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Wit like beauty triumphs over the heart
- Last Line:
- When more of nature's seen and less of art
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
- Title:
- The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
- Page No(s):
- p.183
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- From Mr Prior
- Attributed To:
- Matthew Prior
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