While Britain's thoughts on rising wars are bent
- DMI number:
- 18809
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- While Britain's thoughts on rising wars are bent
- Last Line:
- And lines like Virgil's or like your's should praise
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Prospect poem / topographical poem and Couplet
- Themes:
- Places[Italy] and War
- Dedicatee:
- Charles Montagu
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Joseph Addison
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Early variant of A Letter from Italy ('While you my Lord, the rural shades admire'). Chalmers (1810) IX: 530-531.
- Title:
- An impartial history of the life, character, amours, travels, and transactions of Mr. John Barber [ESTC T27751]
- Page No(s):
- pp.15-21
- Poem Title:
- To the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Halifax
- Attribution:
- Mr. Addison
- Attributed To:
- Joseph Addison
Poem Aliases
Addison. Letter from Italy.
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