We barbarously call those blessed
- DMI number:
- 5939
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We barbarously call those blessed
- Last Line:
- And seal their country's love with their departing breath
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Ode
- Themes:
- The happy man / contentment
- Author:
- George Stepney
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Horace Book IV Ode IX. ('Verses immortal as my bays I sing'). Chalmers (1810) VIII: 361.
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Verses immortal as my bays I sing
- Last Line:
- And seal their country's love with their departing breath
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- pp.15-16
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Step.
- Attributed To:
- George Stepney
Poem Aliases
Horace. Odes. Book 4 Ode 9.
Stepney. Horace, Book 4 Ode 9.
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