Tyrants and devils think all pleasure vain
- DMI number:
- 21197
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- Tyrants and devils think all pleasure vain
- Last Line:
- But what are still derived from other's pain
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Siege of Rhodes Part 1 Fifth Entry. Works (1673).
- Title:
- [vol. 3] The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries [vol III] [ECCO] [T131617]
- Page No(s):
- p.228
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir William Davenant's Siege of Rhodes
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [B] [T134540] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.280
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dav. Siege Rho.
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Siege of Rhodes. Part 1.
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