We for their knowledge men inspired adore
- DMI number:
- 16022
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- We for their knowledge men inspired adore
- Last Line:
- Than that which he can make another know
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Education
- Author:
- Sir William Davenant
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian. Works (1673): 326-334.
- First Line:
- Before by death you never knowledge gain
- Last Line:
- And none when fear is past will supplicate
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- 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 II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.148
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Sir W. Davenant, Ibid
- Attributed To:
- Sir William Davenant
Poem Aliases
Davenant. Philosopher's Disquisition.
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