When I consider life tis all a cheat
- DMI number:
- 5573
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- When I consider life tis all a cheat
- Last Line:
- Which fools us young and beggars us when old
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Hopelessness / vanity of life
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Act 4 of Dryden's Aureng Zebe; Calif. XII (1995): 210.
- Title:
- Athenian sport: or two thousand paradoxes; with improvements from Boyle, Lock, Norris and other illustrious wits [T93435]
- Page No(s):
- p.243
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
- Page No(s):
- pp.201-202
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Dryd.
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus. Containing all the celebrated passages, soliloquies, similies, descriptions, and other poetical beauties in the body of English plays. [1724] [2 vols] [ESTC T134540]
- Page No(s):
- pp.219-220
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Ibid [i.e. Dr. Auren]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
Poem Aliases
Aureng-zebe a Tragedy.
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