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While fame is young too weak to fly away

DMI number:
9417
First Line:
While fame is young too weak to fly away
Last Line:
Fame bears no fruit till the vain planter dies
Poem Genre / Form:
Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
Themes:
Fame
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Author:
John Sheffield
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Extract from On Mr Hobbes and his writings ('Such is the mode of these censorious days'). Chalmers (1810) X: 96-97.
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Content/Publication
Title:
The agreeable variety. In two parts [T61602]
Page No(s):
pp. 145-146
Poem Title:
On Fame
Attribution:
from the Marquess of Normanby
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The agreeable variety. In two parts. [T61568]
Page No(s):
pp.145-146
Poem Title:
On Fame
Attribution:
from the Marquess of Normanby
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The agreeable variety: being a miscellaneous collection in prose and verse from the works of the most celebrated authors [T61569]
Page No(s):
pp.145-146
Poem Title:
On Fame
Attribution:
from the Marquess of Normanby
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The Art of English Poetry (A-L) [T136727]
Page No(s):
pp.122-123
Poem Title:
[no title]
Attribution:
Norm.
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The virgin muse [T118389]
Page No(s):
p.142
Poem Title:
Of Fame.
Attribution:
Duke of Buckingham
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The virgin muse [T124513]
Page No(s):
p.142
Poem Title:
Of Fame.
Attribution:
Duke of Buckingham
Attributed To:
John Sheffield
Title:
The virgin muse [T124652]
Page No(s):
p.142
Poem Title:
Of Fame.
Attribution:
Duke of Buckingham
Attributed To:
John Sheffield