Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore
- DMI number:
- 2103
- First Line:
- Whether the fruitful Nile or Tyrian shore
- Last Line:
- And without stooping they may pass the gate
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Couplet
- Themes:
- Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- John Dryden
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Calif. II (1972): 172-4.
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Last Line:
- Which none knew better and none came so near
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Happy that author whose correct essay
- Last Line:
- Which none know better and none come so near
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Happy the author whose correct essay
- Last Line:
- Which none know better and none come so near
- Relationship:
- Answer To/Answered By
- Comments:
- First Line:
- In Charles' time and by Roscommon's pen
- Last Line:
- And calls his finished poem an essay
- Relationship:
- Extract Of/Extracted In
- Comments:
- Title:
- A collection of the best english poetry by several hands [vol I] [T71]
- Page No(s):
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, On his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [N21690]
- Page No(s):
- pp.17-20
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, On his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- A select collection of modern poems [T813]
- Page No(s):
- pp.51-54
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, On his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke. [T132427]
- Page No(s):
- [3pp.]
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- Sylvae: or the second part of poetical miscellanies [T116469]
- Page No(s):
- A2r-A3r
- Poem Title:
- To The Earl of Roscomon, on his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [ecco] [T117014]
- Page No(s):
- pp.284-286
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscommon, on his excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- By the same Hand. [i.e. Dryden]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The fifth part of miscellany poems [T214159]
- Page No(s):
- pp.289-291
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscommon, on his excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- By the same hand [i.e. Dryden]
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
- Title:
- The works of Mr. Alexander Pope. To which are added, I. Coopers-Hill. By Sir John Denham. II. An Essay on Translated Verse... [ESTC T5394]
- Page No(s):
- p.305-308
- Poem Title:
- To the Earl of Roscommon, On his Excellent Essay on Translated Verse.
- Attribution:
- John Dryden
- Attributed To:
- John Dryden
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