What and how great the virtue and the art
- DMI number:
- 31545
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- What and how great the virtue and the art
- Last Line:
- Let us be fixed and our own masters still
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Imitation / translation / paraphrase, Satire, and Couplet
- Themes:
- Advice / moral precepts, Poverty, Retirement, and Rural life
- Author:
- Alexander Pope
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Second satire of the second book of Horace. Twickenham edition IV.
- Translated from:
- Horace
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Tis yet in vain I own to keep a pother
- Last Line:
- And neither leans on this side nor on that
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- The art of poetry on a new plan [vol 2] [ESTC T56146] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.102-106
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Bethel.
- Attribution:
- by the late celebrated Mr. Pope
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
Poem Aliases
Horace. Satires. Book 2. Satire 2.
Pope. Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace.
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